The Wuhan Flu means drug traffickers have stockpiles they can't get rid of before getting caught.
But the NBC story caught my eye for another reason:
The recent busts haven't been confined to stacks of cash. Along the northern border, federal officers have confiscated large quantities of drugs over the past few months.Wait, so people are smuggling guns into the U.S. from Canada?
From March 21 to May 16, border patrol officers working out of the Detroit field office have seized 2,856 pounds of marijuana, 87 pounds of cocaine, 12 pounds of fentanyl and 12 guns.
“We are definitely seeing an uptick,” said Kris Grogan, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Detroit.
Has Bill Blair been notified?