Driver cards will aid drug smugglers: Guest opinion
Continuing the trend, much of the illicit drugs killing Oregonians are produced, manufactured and smuggled into the state by drug cartels operating out of Mexico.
On April 24, the Oregon Medical Examiner (OME) reported 222 drug related deaths in 2013 were caused by the illicit drugs...
....Multnomah County had the dubious distinction of leading all 36 Oregon counties with 102 drug related deaths...
Putting these numbers into perspective, Multnomah County residents are just over 19 percent of Oregon's population of 3.9 million, yet the county experienced nearly 46 percent of the state's illicit drug deaths.
Not only last year, but over the last eight years Multnomah has led all Oregon counties in OME reported illicit drug related deaths...
The cartels' drug mules and dealers operating motor vehicles bringing drugs into the state or distributing drugs across the state need some form of identification like an Oregon driver's license or driver card to move around the state...
Senate Bill 833, driver card legislation passed during the 2013 legislative session, could literally give the cartel members operating motor vehicles in this state a get-out-of-jail-free card...
One common-sense solution to reduce future drug deaths in Oregon, case in point Multnomah County, which is now literally a drug den of death, is to make it more difficult for Mexican drug cartel operatives to access licenses.
Oregon's registered voters will have the opportunity ... to put the brakes on Mexican drug cartels' ability to distribute drugs in this state by voting "No" ..sending Senate Bill 833's driver cards for those who cannot prove legal presence in the United States into the archives of bad legislative history.
