Border wall forces drug smugglers to turn to drones
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By Stephen Dinan
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The Washington Times
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
Drone drug-smuggling has surged so much along the U.S.-Mexico border that the Border Patrol issued a stark plea last week asking residents in southwestern Arizona to step up and help them by spotting and reporting any incursions.
A spokesman for the Border Patrol in Yuma says new border wall construction has disrupted cartels’ normal routes and sent them into the air to try to find new ways to get narcotics from Mexico into the U.S.