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.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Cocaine, marijuana worth $11.5 million seized at border

By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Almost 10,000 pounds of smuggled marijuana have been discovered by federal agents along California's border with Mexico in the past week, the latest example of an ongoing spike in drug seizures borderwide.

Border Patrol agents in El Centro have seized nearly four tons of drugs in separate incidents since Friday, including 3,300 pounds of pot stuffed in a U-Haul truck found east of Calexico. In all, the more than 7,000 pounds of marijuana and 177 pounds of cocaine they seized are worth more than $11.5 million.

At the San Ysidro port of entry Monday morning, inspectors discovered a U.S. citizen smuggling more than 2,500 pounds of pot hidden in a van and trailer.

Federal officials say there is no way to be sure if there are more drugs coming across or more drugs are being discovered.

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