The US Coast Guard patrols the Port of Miami daily to combat drug smuggling and illegal immigration. We spent a day on a Coast Guard pursuit boat.
And I wanted to see what these recruits do after they leave Cape May. I wanted to see what they do after they graduate. After seeing a lot of headlines, I saw that the Coast Guard in Miami was very active in terms of drug interdiction and also dealing with illegal immigration. In 2019, the Coast Guard in Miami has been involved in a major seizure of cocaine. Also you've had migrants intercepted in the region of Miami.
We came upon a fishing boat. It looked like a pretty normal fishing trip, five or six people on board. Our boat pulled alongside theirs, and the Coast Guard said that they were going to perform a routine inspection. Two Coast Guardsmen boarded that boat and then we essentially kind of pulled away. We sort of just trolled around staying within proximity of the boat. I wasn't too concerned that anything was suspicious or out of the ordinary while this was happening. It seemed pretty routine.
This is the boat that the Coast Guard caught trying to smuggle in cocaine last month. I mean, it looks like a regular fishing boat, it looks like the boat that they boarded while I was embedded with them. They have to assume with these routine inspections that there's always a chance that you could find something illegal, something that needs to be stopped from entering into the United States.
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