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Mexican Cartels Smuggling Drugs In Food Imports: Record-Breaking Meth Bust At US-Mexico Border Is Latest
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 4:07pm | 579Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized over $17.4 million in methamphetamine from a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of coconuts at the Mexico-Texas border. The bust is one of many involving cartels slipping drugs across the border in fresh food shipments from Mexico, which is the largest...
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12,000 Pounds Of Meth Worth $18M Found In 1,400 Boxes Of Squash At Mexico Border Thanks To Drug-Sniffing Dogs
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 3:38pm | 628The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced it had seized nearly six tons of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of green squash. Specially trained dogs sniffed out the drugs in the 1,419 packages of squash, the CBP said in a news release. The shipment was discovered in a...
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Analysis: GOP Impeachment Effort Against Homeland Security's Alejandro Mayorkas Falls Flat, Exposing Misconceptions On Migrants And Fentanyl
Monday, February 12, 2024 - 5:22pm | 616A House GOP effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed last week as three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against what would have been the second-ever impeachment move against a Cabinet member. Some outlets called that vote a "stunning loss" for the GOP, while...
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This Day In Market History: The Department Of Homeland Security Is Established
Friday, October 8, 2021 - 10:07am | 269Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On this day in 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Where The Market Was: The Dow closed around 10,021.57 and the S...
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This Is How You Can Safeguard Your Personal Information As Phone Searches Multiply At U.S. Borders
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 9:49am | 754After President Donald Trump assumed the Oval Office, several controversies have surfaced over immigration into the United States. The infamous travel ban imposed by the president on nationals of seven — and then six in the second rendition of the ban — predominantly Muslim countries...