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, June 26, 2007

CBP Officers at Bridge of Americas Cargo Facility Seize 3,031-Pound Drug Load Thursday

Monday, June 25, 2007

El Paso, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Bridge of the Americas commercial cargo facility seized 3,031 pounds of marijuana Thursday afternoon.

It was the second large drug seizure made at the cargo lot this week. On Monday, CBP officers seized 1,806 pounds of marijuana. Total drugs seized this week by CBP officers working at all ports of entry in El Paso, West Texas and New Mexico was 6,777 pounds of marijuana in 23 drug seizures this week.

The large Thursday seizure occurred just before 5 p.m. when a tractor-trailer entered the cargo facility from Mexico. CBP officers directed the vehicle to the X-ray unit for an examination. CBP officers scanned the truck and noticed a dense area in the front of the empty trailer. CBP drug sniffing dog “Freedom” searched the trailer and alerted to the front wall. CBP officers removed a false front wall from the trailer and removed 656 marijuana-filled bundles from a hidden compartment. The weight of the marijuana was 3,031 pounds. ICE special agents arrested the driver, a 34-year-old Mexican male from Juarez, in connection with the failed smuggling attempt.

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