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WHY DRUG INTERDICTION IS DOOMED TO FAILURE

“I’M GOING TO create borders,” Donald Trump promised while running for president in 2016. “No drugs are coming in. We’re gonna build a wall.”

Halfway through his term, the president’s faith in “the border wall” as a way of blocking the “pipeline demonstrates.

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