The Trump administration is doubling its border seizures compared to Obama.

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A senior US Department of Homeland Security official announced that authorities have confiscated nearly twice as many drugs on the US-Mexico border during President Trump's first term as compared to former President Barack Obama's two terms.

 According to the Washington Examiner, a senior official performing the duties of Deputy Secretary of Security for the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee said that law enforcement authorities at the Department of Security operating on the Southern Border have prevented 4 million pounds of drugs from entering the United States since January 2017.

 The official said in his testimony before the committee, "It is worth noting that we are on the right path to seize drugs at a rate that is twice what the Ministry confiscated during the past eight years." Therefore, in these four years, we seized nearly many drugs that were seized in the previous eight  Drugs. "

 "We need more authority or some powers to classify transnational organized crime at a lower level than a foreign terrorist organization, but it gives us powers higher than the level of criminal law," he said.

 The Washington Examiner analysis found that in 2018, CBP confiscated quantities of drugs, including marijuana, in unprotected sections of the border such as ports of entry or via shipping and mail.

 The acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security also considered the Mexican drug cartels "the most lethal organization in the Western Hemisphere" and of such a large size that it is a "destabilizing force" in the region.