News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Drug seizures are up at border crossings

3-month total rises 22%; cocaine 57%

By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 27, 2007

Drug seizures are up at the ports of entry on the California-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. During October, November and December, the first three months of the 2007 federal fiscal year, the quantity of drugs confiscated jumped 22 percent compared with the same period a year ago.

This includes all classes of narcotics found at the state's six border stations: the amount of marijuana seized is up 21 percent, cocaine up 57 percent, heroin up 30 percent and methamphetamine up 49 percent.

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