Despite Biden SOTU Claim, Most Southwest Border Drug Seizures Down
Without new border policies, drugs will flow in and Americans will die. Stats don’t lie.
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 4, 2022
In his State of the Union address (covered by my colleagues Robert Law and Mark Krikorian), President Biden touted the fact he’s “installed new technology like cutting-edge scanners to better detect drug smuggling”. I am not sure how much “cutting-edge” technology Biden has sent to the border (the president’s seeking an additional $32 million for inspection technologies at the ports in FY 2022), but CBP has had mixed results when it comes to drug seizures thus far in FY 2022. The agency would be better able to stop the cross-border flow of drugs if the president implemented policies that would deter illegal migrants.
CBP’s Drug Interdiction Efforts at the Border. CBP stops drugs at the border in one of two ways: Drugs are either interdicted by CBP officers (CBPOs) in the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the ports of entry or by agents in its U.S. Border Patrol component along the border between the ports.
CBP has developed a valuable webpage detailing OFO’s and Border Patrol’s narcotics interdiction efforts captioned “Drug Seizure Statistics”. You can toggle around that page and find useful data on specific drugs seized at each port and Border Patrol sector over the last four years.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Despite-Biden-SOTU-Claim-Most-Southwest-Border-Drug-Seizures-Down
