Willie R. Tubbs, FISM News
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The depressing reality at the U.S. southern border is that things continue to get worse.
Agents at two bridges that provide access into the nation found major shipments of cocaine, with a street value total of more than $22 million, in the same week that FISM reported 81 suspects from the FBI terror watchlist have been apprehended at the border since President Joe Biden took office.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized $11.8 million in narcotics Monday that were disguised as baby wipes. The event occurred at the Colombia-Solidarity bridge in Laredo, Texas.
“Officers assigned to CBP cargo facilities ensure effective border security by preventing and countering the flow of suspected narcotics entering the country,” Port Director Alberto Flores, Laredo Port of Entry, said in a release. “This seizure is a prime example of border security management and how it helps prevent dangerous narcotics from reaching our communities.”
The drugs were found when a canine detected 1,935 packages containing 1,532.65 pounds of cocaine in the trailer of an 18-wheeler.
This was far from the last major bust along the border.
On Thursday, Border Patrol announced that CPB agents had seized another $11.8 million in cocaine over three incidents, this time along the World Trade Bridge in Laredo.
In one bust, a canine detected 209 packages containing 545 pounds of alleged cocaine worth $4.2 million; in the other, a canine detected 285 packages containing nearly 718 pounds of cocaine worth $5.5 million. Finally, a CPB canine hit on 110 packages containing 270 pounds of cocaine worth about $2.1 million.
“Our frontline CBP officers have displayed unparalleled commitment to CBP’s priority border security mission, seizing a fourth significant cocaine load in the cargo environment this week,” Flores said in a different release. “These seizures illustrate the gravity of the narcotics threat we are facing and the effective application of CBP officer inspections experience, resources, and technology.”
In addition to the numerous drug busts, ever more human trafficking victims are smuggled into the country each week.
A brief glance at the CBP’s news releases for the week also reveals that agents have broken up smuggling efforts at an airport and arrested people previously convicted of sex crimes as well as a person who previously served more than two years in prison for invasive video recording.
As reported in more detail by Fox News, Republicans, and now Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, argue that President Joe Biden is to blame for allowing a crisis to develop and for failing to take the steps required to reign in the problem.