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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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.

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.

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 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