Amid Heroin Epidemic, the US Focuses on Stopping Drugs at Mexican Border CBSN
go to original May 31, 2016

A sea of vehicles enters San Diego every day from Mexico. Any one of them could be carrying drugs. Sidney Aki, port director for San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports, tried to describe the challenge.

"Our job here is to find that needle in the haystack," Aki said.

The State Department estimates 92,000 pounds of heroin were produced in Mexico in 2014, most of it headed for the United States. Yet according to the Drug Enforcement Agency only 11,000 pounds were seized across the country.

Aki said smugglers get more sophisticated every day.

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