An image shared by the Border Patrol with Congress during a 2017 hearing. “A big majority of the big drugs, the big drug loads don’t go through ports of entry,” Trump said. (Customs and Border Patrol) (Philip Bump/(Customs and Border Patrol))Some of those are even at airports, where you would expect smuggling to be particularly tricky. After he started making these claims, in fact, a Border Patrol leader sent out an email asking if anyone could back up Trump’s stories. The Laredo Border Patrol sector captures a lot of people at checkpoints, if their news releases are any indication.

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2019 17:20 UTC