Border Security Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Drug trafficking groups have diversified their activities into lines of business such as: - Answer All of the answers are correct (Copyright Piracy, Kidnapping, Extortion) El Padrino refers to the head of the Guadalajara Cartel - Answer True Loan Sharking is one line of business Mexican drug cartels are known to have entered - Answer True Mexicans were required to have visas to enter the United States by - Answer 1929 The United States is not a major source of guns in Mexico's drug violence. - Answer False A narcocorrido refers to a ballad glorifying drug traffickers. - Answer True A straw purchaser is - Answer A buyer of guns with a clean record who resells the gun to a criminal According to Corchado's source, one theory is the Juarez police are in part responsible for the missing women in Juarez who theorizes they are; - Answer All answers are correct (Taken to be gang raped, Are lured by police into vehicles, Killed and disposed of, Routines are studied by police) According to Corchado's underworlds contacts, some Mexican journalists are on the payrolls of cartels - Answer True According to Jones the La Familia Michoacana and the Caballeros Templarios are best described as: - Answer Insurgent According to Jones the Zetas are best described as - Answer Territorial According to Payan the 3 defining events of the Customs Era were - Answer The Mexican Revolution, Prohibition and WWI According to a drug trafficker Payan interviewed no intelligent drug trafficker would work with terrorists because it would draw US government attention. - Answer True According to diplomat Crescencio Arcos, the US government did not share more with the Mexican government in the 2000s because: - Answer There is no one to trust in Mexico Alfredo Corchado would lay low by covering: - Answer Tourist Stories Andreas argues that the escalation of Border enforcement is: - Answer About "constructing an image of state authority and more resolve" Another term for eminent domain is "taking" - Answer True Being a journalist in Mexico makes you safer. - Answer False Borderlanders really enjoy internal border-patrol checkpoints. - Answer False Corchado reports for which outlet - Answer Dallas Morning News Corchado's girlfriend was named: - Answer Angela Corchado's peace pact story involved corrupt government officials and various cartels - Answer True