if you build a wall along the southern border, while making major cuts to the Coast Guard, you're just incentivizing cartels to smuggle in more drugs in other ways.
On the recordMarch 21, 2017
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Hassan warns that cutting Coast Guard funding could worsen drug smuggling issues.
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