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Drug smugglers hitting high seas as Coast Guard faces budget cuts | Fox NewsBudget cuts at the Coast Guard are coming at an unfortunate time. As the service, like other branches of the military, makes do with less, drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the high seas -- and challenging the Coast Guard's already strained resources. ..drug smugglers are moving some of their operations away from the U.S.-Mexico land border and out into the ocean where it's easier to avoid law enforcement.
And for U.S. patrollers, that theater is becoming harder and harder to defend.