President Biden's drug czar Rahul Gupta travels to the border Thursday to announce the expansion of a scanning system used to detect narcotics.
The Biden administration is moving forward with a plan to expand the use of high-tech inspection systems at the Southern border in an effort to reduce the flow of fentanyl and other drugs into the country, Newsweek has learned.President Biden's drug czar Rahul Gupta will travel to the border Thursday to tout the expansion of a scanning system at border checkpoints that allows U.S. Customs and Border Protection to more efficiently inspect vehicles for narcotics and other contraband.
-Mexico border could make a difference, said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at Brookings.Boosting inspections won't stop the 'fentanyl flow completely,' Felbab-Brown said. 'But it's an area where' the U.S. government can make an impact, she added.Biden and his recent predecessors have struggled to contain an explosion in opioid use in the past three decades.
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