An endless fight: as border infrastructure on land improves, smugglers take to the water

[rangerrebew]

    An endless fight: as border infrastructure on land improves, smugglers take to the water


    Maritime smuggling attempts increase 60 percent between fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019.

    By WENDY FRY
    NOV. 6, 2019 6:27 PM

    SAN DIEGO — Human and drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the Pacific Ocean to get into the United States while the Trump administration tightens border infrastructure on land with the president’s signature border wall.

    The federal government has invested $10 billion so far in improving the land infrastructure — or building the wall — along the 1,993 miles of U.S.-Mexico border. In September, Trump visited Otay Mesa to praise the completion of $147-million border wall replacement project stretching 14 miles between the Pacific Ocean and Otay Mountain.

    But San Diego-area border agents are noting a recent sharp increase in the number of smuggling attempts through the Pacific Ocean.

 

    https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...e-to-the-water

[roamer_1]

I think US Coast Guard and Border Patrol should be merged.

[Fishrrman]

"as border infrastructure on land improves, smugglers take to the water..."

Much easier than intercepting them on land.

Once the target has been positively identified, just SHOOT THEM OUT OF THE WATER.

Done.