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Billions of dollars of cocaine are smuggled into the US by sea every year, and the Coast Guard says it can only stop one-quarter of it

The Coast Guard is in the Pacific trying to track down and stop drug traffickers, but there's a gap between what they can see and what they can stop.

Bales of cocaine on display aboard the US Coast Guard cutter James, in front of the ship's crew and its helicopter, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 15, 2018.
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