Economic security is “just as important to national security as the physical border,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Rodney Scott said on Tuesday.
\n\nScott spoke during a policy event in Washington, DC, with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about how the Trump administration is working to plug up vulnerabilities in customs enforcement to keep other countries from undercutting American industry.
\n\n“What are some of the major threats that you guys are seeing on a daily basis right now when it comes to the customs front of things, when it comes to what are bad actors around the world trying to do to take advantage of weaknesses? What are they targeting us with? What are some of the big, big issues that we see on a daily basis that you guys face?” Boyle asked.
\n\n“The ones that get the most attention are literally the precursor chemicals, the synthetic narcotics, the fentanyl, trying to use the cover of mass global trade to hide the commodity, just like they use massive amounts of illegal aliens at the border to hide the bigger threat,” Scott replied.
\n\n“Companies, nation states try to use the global trade — but that was that customs…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/
