US Coast Guard He was unable to “consistently” stop drugmoremps during the Biden administration, and the vessels are not available for combined for a total of 2,000 days during the three -year period, the new report said.
The report of the General Inspector of the Ministry of Homeland Security determined that the Coast Guard “was unable to consistently intertwine the non -commercial drug smuggling vessels in the US” from fiscal years in 2021 to 2023.
The audit watched the capacity of the coastal guard to stop the drug trade over 95,000 miles of coastal waters and more than 300 ports. The agency is primarily focused on cocaine because the primary drug is smuggled with water.
The report found that the Coast Guard does not have enough vessels to cut the mission against the order and “did not have a plan for extraordinary situations to resolve the unavailable cutter”.
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The US Coast Guard enhances operations along Rio Grande in search of illegal transitions and illegal activities. (Sarah allegre)
“We discovered that the Coast Guard cutters were not available for 2,058 cumulative days during the three -year period,” the report said.
The reasons that 39 of the 90 cutters were not available included the redistribution of a migrant prohibition, unplanned maintenance or non-operated due to the Coid-19 protocol. The report found that the number of cutting days was not available to increase each year and correlate with the fall of the seized cocaine.
“According to Coast Guard staffMany cutters scheduled for the fight against the fight are awarded to the migrant crisis, reducing the number of cuttings available in the maritime transit zone and negatively affect cocaine removal, “the report said.
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“The Coast Guard staff also attributed these issues to the delayed maintenance. The Coast Guard staff said that insufficient maintenance and repair funding reduced the availability of the cutter and that as many maintenance periods as possible, which in the short term were delayed, it takes more for maintenance and repairs in the long run,” the said. “
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It was said that between Fiscal 2021 and Fiscal 2023, which included several months Trump administration But mostly during the Biden administration, the coastal guard intercepted about 421 metric tons of cocaine, which is less than a goal of 690 metric tons.
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It was also found that the Coast Guard did not accurately record all prohibitions, with 58% of the case file against drugs containing seizures, and 68% do not contain the necessary documentation.
“Without solving the problems established in this report, the Coast Guard may be missing the opportunity to fulfill the goals in removing cocaine and a decrease in the illegal drug flow that comes to the country,” the report concluded.
Recommended that the Coast Guard develop A plan of unforeseen cases of drug prohibition In order to prioritize the priority of the cutter availability and also update the systems to ensure the accuracy of the data, including the centralized database.
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The Coast Guard agreed with the recommendations, except for the extraordinary state plan, which he said would be “superfluous and not effective for resolving the documented property of the asset availability”.
The Coast Guard also said that “she is still dedicated to strengthening her tactics, techniques and procedures to stop the illegal drug flow of drugs entering the United States, interfering with cocaine flow and other illegal drugs in a maritime environment.”
