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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Jelena Martinovic

BIZARRE: Why does cannabis dominate drug seizures along us border checkpoint oversight needs improvement | Mind Blowing Facts

Three-quarters of U.S. Border Patrol drug seizures were exclusively for marijuana, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published in early June.

The analysis of Border Patrol data, from 2016 through 2020, showed that officers pulled in roughly 35,700 potentially removable people as part of 17,500 events at checkpoints.

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