Heroin smuggling persists along the U.S.-Mexico border, where officials regularly seize shipments

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Heroin smuggling persists along the U.S.-Mexico border, where officials regularly seize shipments

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During the 2016 fiscal year, Border Patrol agents in San Diego confiscated nearly 83,000 kilograms of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin from the three ports of entry in the area.
"I know from the Border Patrol that about 20% of the 3,000 the last couple of years are packing hard drugs," he says. "The evidence appears to be it's all hard drugs. Fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, meth." By all accounts, there is a significant amount of human smuggling in the mountains and desert around Nogales as migrants pay smugglers thousands of dollars to sneak them into the U.S. without detection. Borderwide, CBP estimates there have been more than 1 million known "gotaways" over the past two years.

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U.S. law enforcement agencies frequently intercept large quantities of drugs, including Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Met-amphetamine, and Fentanyl along the U.S-Mexico border.

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Drug types being smuggled along US-MX border

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Drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border