The US-Canada border is closed, but seized drug quantities shooting up

Published May 28, 2020 9:29pm ET



Despite the Trump administration closing the United States-Canada border to all nonessential travel in March, parts of the northern border have reported an uptick in the amount of drugs seized from smugglers driving through ports of entry, federal law enforcement officials told the Washington Examiner.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees land crossings along the 4,000-mile-long northern border, has made large drug seizures in upstate New York, Michigan, and Washington state.

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