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Brad Schimel: “We don't get our heroin from Southeast and Southwest Asia…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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On the Issues Brad Schimel, Attorney General of Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 08:06

That means back in the day, 5% was heroin, 95% was an inert cutting agent to spread it out. But We don't get our heroin from Southeast and Southwest Asia anymore. We get it from south of the border. It's coming from the Mexican, Central American, South American drug cartels. And instead of having to smuggle it by somebody swallowing a balloon or in their luggage on an airplane a overseas, they can drive it across the border or carry it in a backpack. (08:06–08:12)

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Asserts that the source of heroin has shifted from Asia to regions south of the U.S. border.

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