U.S. Strikes 4 Alleged Drug Boats in Eastern Pacific
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Fact check: Do quarter of US’s ‘drug boat’ searches find nothing?
Paul’s office pointed PolitiFact to the US Coast Guard’s 2024 fiscal year report, which said that year the agency intercepted drugs in about 73 percent of cases when they boarded boats, with about 27 percent of vessel interceptions yielding no drugs.
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