Cocaine is being smuggled along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Cocaine is being smuggled along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Border security officers uncovered the illicit cargo inside a commercial tractor-trailer being examined at an inspection site in San Diego, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday in a news release. The vehicle said to be carrying a shipment of jalapeño paste had actually brought with it 349 packages of methamphetamine and cocaine, which officers removed from the vats of paste themselves after K-9 dogs screened and flagged the trailer.
(CBSNewsTexas.com) - More than $20 million in cocaine and methamphetamine was seized at the Texas-Mexico border on three separate days this month.

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U.S law enforcement agencies frequently intercepting large quantities of illegal drugs at 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