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Operation Hard Line is the United States Customs drug interdiction program that is used at the border of the United States to address violence and drug smuggling. [5] This specific drug interdiction program focuses primarily on intensified inspections, improved facilities, and the use of technology.
In response to a need for unified command and control of drug interdiction activities, the FY 1989 National Defense Authorization Act designated the Department of Defense as the lead agency for the detection and monitoring program targeted against the aerial and maritime traffic attempting to bring drugs into the United States. [1]
In all states and territories [15] the concept has been extended to make sobriety checkpoints also use "Random Drug Test (RDT) buses" (or "dual buses"), capable of testing drivers for a number of illicit drugs including cannabis (tetrahydrocannabinol), methamphetamine, and ecstasy (MDMA). [16]
Fifty-six scanners that can detect fentanyl in cars at border crossings will be installed due to $200 million in federal funds approved after an NBC News report.
The U.S. has spent millions on high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the border, but many sit in warehouses unused because Congress hasn’t appropriated funds to install them.
By 1999 there were 472 Drug Courts in the nation and by 2005 that number had increased to 1262 with another 575 Drug Courts in the planning stages; currently, all 50 states have working Drug Courts. There are currently about 120,000 people treated annually in Drug Courts, though an estimated 1.5 million eligible people are currently before the ...
The Border Patrol also "encountered 530 aliens from special interest countries, which are countries the Department of State has determined to represent a potential terrorist threat to the United States." Additionally, there were over 3,500 drug seizures at southwest border checkpoints in 2008. [2]
The initial focus of the Center was to assist in the identification of drug traffickers and alien traffickers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The current EPIC facility was dedicated on 22 February 1989 in memory of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar who was slain in the line of duty while conducting an undercover operation in Mexico. [2]