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CA Prop. 47 Enabled the New El Chapo:  The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has flooded Los Angeles streets with drugs since passage of California’s Proposition 47.  Bill Melugin of Fox News reports that the CJNG  “is probably the most prolific cartel in Mexico,” according to the Los Angeles head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. The cartel is responsible for 1/3 of all the drugs entering the US and has an extensive network in Los Angeles, smuggling and distributing hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine every month–much of it to the city’s growing homeless population. Federal law enforcement considers the cartel’s leader, El Mencho, to be worse than the notorious El Chapo. The CEO of the Union Rescue Mission in downtown LA, Reverend Andy Bales, who lost his leg from infection after stepping in human feces, believes that the city’s drug/homeless crisis needs a National Guard response. A DEA official said that Proposition 47, which decriminalized drug use, played right into the cartel’s hands, by providing addicts with no reason to stop using drugs and no motivation to go to treatment. El Mencho was an illegal in California 30 years ago. He was deported back to Mexico after he was arrested on drug charges in San Francisco and Sacramento.