TX. border station seized 176.000 pounds of marijuana In 1996. 20 percent more than in 1993. But the burden of combating the increased drug shipments falls disproportionately on United States border agents because Mexico does little to enforce the border. United States Customs and Border Patrol officials have said publicly that Mexican traffickers are today going to extraordinary lengths to move their products. They are constructing secret compartments in 18wheelers. They are saturating areas with hundreds of mules carrying backpacks with 10 kilos of marijuana each. and even sacrificing large loads of marijuana at the border to allow more valuable shipments of cocaine and heroin to slip through behind them.
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