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Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., is calling for an investigation into allegations that U.S. Border Patrol agents have been confiscating medications from children and adults taken into custody.
Customs and Border Protection has spent millions on the most up-to-date high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the southern U.S. border, but many scanners are sitting in warehouses unused ...
A former U.S. border inspector was sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison for taking bribes to allow people and drug-laden vehicles to enter the country, authorities said.
Plain radiograph of the abdomen of a drug "mule" showing swallowed drug capsules German Customs Officer with seized cocaine containers (bodypacks) A mule or courier is someone who personally smuggles contraband across a border (as opposed to sending by mail, etc.) for a smuggling organization. The organizers employ mules to reduce the risk of ...
During border support activities, they are not allowed to detain migrants or seize drugs. [12] They have assisted the Border Patrol by maintaining vehicles. [ 12 ] Other duties have included using military helicopters to carry border patrol agents to and from locations along the U.S.-Mexico border and operating cranes to install towering panels ...
FDA Enforcement Policy Regarding the Personal Importation of Violative Drugs (unapproved drugs in the U.S.) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Most Online Pharmacies Fake, FDA Warns, October 2, 2012, WebMD Health News
The TRIPS agreement is an example of a World Trade Organization treaty which regulates how drugs can be traded in the international marketplace. [2] Some developing countries might receive access to lower-cost drugs through compulsory licenses. [3] Compulsory licenses affect markets outside the country in which they are issued. [3]
AMMAN (Reuters) -Jordan has foiled two plots to smuggle millions of captagon pills through a border post to Saudi Arabia, the biggest seizure in years of drugs bound for lucrative Gulf markets ...