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Listen • 7:40 Mexican fishermen tend to their nets on Bagdad Beach, just south of the Texas-Mexico border. Red snapper poaching along the Gulf is a multi-million dollar black market. Updated July 18, 2021 at 5:33 PM ET It s the hidden U.S.-Mexico border war. For years, Mexican fisherman have crossed into U.S. waters to illegally catch high-priced red snapper. It has become a multi-million dollar black market, the Mexican cartel is involved, Texas fishermen are outraged, and the federal government can t seem to stop it. The U.S. Coast Guard on South Padre Island has a one-of-a-kind mission among the 197 stations along the nation s seacoasts. Their chief enforcement activity entails bouncing across the swells of the lower Texas Gulf in pursuit of wily Mexican fishing boats filled with plump, rosy fish destined for seafood houses in Mexico City and Houston.

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