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,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.
"The goal is to make sure that every vehicle, regardless of [whether it's] cargo or passenger, that needs to get scanned, gets scanned," Gupta, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, toldThe scanners, which can check vehicles faster than agents doing physical searches, are currently used to inspect air cargo entering the country. But just two percent of passenger vehicles and 17 percent of cargo vehicles that enter the U.S.
The administration is planning to add 123 new non-intrusive scanning systems at land points of entry on the Southern border by fiscal year 2026. The expansion would allow CBP to scan 40 percent of passenger cars and 70 percent of cargo vehicles, according to the White House. Experts touted the administration's push for more drug enforcement measures at the Southern border even as they warned that more needs to be done to combat the crisis.
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