What did Donald Trump claim about immigration on 15 Feb 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
And a big majority of the big drugs—the big drug loads—don't go through ports of entry. They can't go through ports of entry.
The opposite. The DEA says the cartels' most common method is smuggling drugs through ports of entry in cars and trucks, including multi-kilogram loads of fentanyl.
The Drug Enforcement Administration's 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment states that the most common smuggling method used by Mexican cartels is moving drugs through U.S. ports of entry in passenger vehicles or tractor trailers. It adds that the cartels most commonly smuggle multi-kilogram loads of fentanyl through Southwest border ports of entry, and that only a small percentage of heroin seized on the land border was seized between ports (DEA, 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment).
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- Remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House declaring a national emergency on the southern border.
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