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Nearly all of the funding would go to DHS’s ICE and Border Patrol agencies that are carrying out the Trump admin’s vigorous deportations throughout the U.S.

George Osborne, OpenAI’s Head of Countries told CNBC that governments “have a big role to play in how this technology is used and deployed.”

Alarming Supply-Chain Stress Sends Transport Cost Soaring, Fueling Inflation Fears

Nearly three weeks ago, UBS analyst Pierre Lafourcade reactivated his desk’s supply-chain watch coverage after stress across global supply chains was “rising at its fastest pace since the early pandemic.” That warning is now increasingly getting louder by the week, with ongoing disruptions around the Hormuz chokepoint and the resulting energy supply shock, pushing up input, freight, and other logistics costs across the global economy.

Weeks after Lafourcade’s warning, which can be read here, the May 2026 Logistics Managers’ Index Report showed transportation costs surging to the highest level in the index’s nearly 10-year history, while transportation capacity fell and transportation utilization remained elevated.

“Supply chains have been resilient despite these ongoing disruptions. However, in the past this level of elevate cost has eventually led to significant levels of supply-driven inflation,” the report stated.

Capacity is quickly contracting…

… and utilization is elevated, according to the report.

As a result, logistics costs are at “the highest level since March 2022,” the report noted, adding, “This previous peak was part of a run of high logistics inflation that led to the highest U.S. inflation in 40 years.”

The report warned, “Supply-driven inflation is more difficult for the Fed to combat than demand-driven inflation because higher interest rates cannot create greater supply (in some cases, they actually may hinder supply). If logistics costs remain elevated, it is likely there will be at least some inflation. Respondents seem to be predicting with this, forecasting aggregate logistics costs will increase at a rate of 253.6 over the next 12 months.”

Bloomberg was the first to cover the Logistics Managers’ Index Report on Thursday. This reporting only added to UBS analyst Lafourcade’s mid-May report that global supply chain stress was quickly emerging, with the Global Supply Chain Stress Index rising by 1.2 standard deviations in March and April, the second-largest two-month jump since July 2020.

Our read-through is that the potential for a supply-side inflation shock feeding into the economy could create a headache for the Federal Reserve. Higher rates would be the standard cure, but monetary policy cannot create trucking capacity, reopen trade chokepoints, lower diesel prices, or fix global shipping disruptions. That raises the risk of sticky inflation even as growth slows. This is why the Trump administration is working quickly to resolve issues in the Hormuz chokepoint.

On Wednesday, the Fed’s Beige Book cited mounting concern among the business community about supply and freight costs.

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Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, is making its first tour of the East Coast as part of celebrations leading up to America’s 250th birthday.The locomotive arrived in Illinois this week as part of Union Pacific’s America 250 tour, a multi-state journey that will take the historic engine through Indiana, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania before arriving in Philadelphia ahead of Fourth of July celebrations.Rail enthusiasts lined the tracks in Sterling, Illinois, on Tuesday to watch the locomotive pass through during one of many whistle-stops planned along the route.JACK CARR REFLECTS ON SACRIFICES THAT SHAPED AMERICA AHEAD OF 250TH BIRTHDAY”I’ve always loved trains. It’s just the history of it,” one visitor told Fox News.Others traveled across state lines for the chance to see the locomotive in person.”It’s huge. It’s beautiful,” said Wisconsin resident Brandon Becker.Big Boy No. 4014 was built in 1941 to haul heavy freight through the mountains of the American West. Union Pacific says 25 Big Boy locomotives were originally built, but No. 4014 is the only one operating today.The locomotive weighs nearly 1.1 million pounds and stretches more than 130 feet long. It was restored to operating condition in 2019 after spending decades on public display.Visitors were also able to get an up-close look at the locomotive during a public display event in West Chicago on Wednesday before it continued east.TRUMP FLOATS REPLACING 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT WITH MASSIVE MAGA RALLY AFTER ARTISTS PULL OUT”I took the day off just to see the train because I just love it,” Marcia Simler said.The locomotive’s route is part of Union Pacific’s broader effort to commemorate the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary. According to the railroad, the America 250 tour includes more than 50 whistle stops and public display events across 10 states.Inside the cab, crew members monitor pressure, water and fire systems that power the massive steam engine. The locomotive continues to operate using steam technology first developed more than a century ago while drawing crowds of modern-day rail enthusiasts at each stop.For many visitors, the attraction is equal parts engineering and history.AMERICA 250: ST. LOUIS ARCH”Stirring patriotic feelings in me, that’s for sure,” John Bollig said.Union Pacific says the eastern leg of the tour is being conducted in partnership with Norfolk Southern and marks the first time Big Boy has traveled to the East Coast.The tour is scheduled to continue through Pennsylvania before arriving in Philadelphia, where the locomotive will participate in events tied to the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration.

Senate Republicans managed to stitch together a unified front to advance President Donald Trump’s roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement package, but divisions over the president’s agenda were laid bare after a marathon day of votes. Passage of the budget reconciliation package geared toward funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years closes a long, drawn out chapter in the Senate that began during the longest shutdown in history. It’s a point that Senate Republicans tried to return to throughout the day, reiterating that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats had forced their hands after refusing to fund immigration operations without a plethora of reforms. DOZEN GOP REBELS FAIL TO PERMANENTLY KILL TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND”Democrats would not agree to anything, and eventually they walked away altogether, presumably because they thought that it would serve them better to have an issue for November,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said.But the day, and preceding weeks, were dominated by a growing rift between Senate Republicans and the Trump administration that threatened to blow up the process altogether. First, it was the inclusion of $1 billion in funding for security upgrades to Trump’s ballroom, which was later stripped out. Then, it was the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announcement that a nearly $2 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was being launched to allow people who felt targeted by the government to make a claim from the pot of taxpayer money.GOP ADVANCES ICE FUNDING PACKAGE AFTER FORCING TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND INTO RETREATSeveral Senate Republicans worried that the money could be accessed by Jan. 6, 2021, rioters who were convicted of assaulting police.Schumer and Democrats leaned into that open wound and spent much of the marathon, “vote-a-rama” vote series trying to spell a permanent end to the fund, despite acting Attorney General Todd Blanche vowing that the administration would no longer pursue it. “Do we believe that Donald Trump, who has lied to us day in and day out, do we believe that he will be able to resist getting his sticky fingers in the slush fund when it would benefit himself and his family? No way, no way,” Schumer said.GOP LEVERAGES ICE FUNDING PACKAGE TO MAKE TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND ‘NEVER EXIST’ Many of the amendments pushed by Democrats placed Republicans in tough bids for reelection, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, into politically challenging positions. Republicans tried to kill it, too, causing tensions on the Senate floor to rise. “It’s not that tense,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said. “I mean, I’ve seen worse. Nobody’s stabbed anybody yet.”Still, the process nearly came to a grinding halt because of the fund at the start of the marathon vote series when Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and others wanted to ensure that GOP attempts to end the fund would get a vote, too. “I just wanted to optimize the chances of success,” Cassidy said of the delay. Ultimately, despite a dozen Republicans voting for Sen. Thom Tillis’, R-N.C., amendment, and X voting for Cassidy’s, all attempts to thwart future bids to revive the fund failed. The ballroom also came back into the picture when six Republicans joined Senate Democrats to prevent construction on the colossal structure from going forward without congressional approval.Then there was an attempt by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to attach the SAVE America Act to the reconciliation package, which met Republican resistance and ultimately failed, too. The package now heads to the House, where Republicans are expected to pass it by the end of the week.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been roundly and rightly mocked for her recent claim that “you can’t earn” a billion dollars. But with respect to my fellow conservatives and free-marketeers, the real problem with her latest anti-billionaire broadside isn’t that it’s economically illiterate. The bigger issue — by far — is that AOC is subtly dismissing the innate human drive to strive and succeed. She isn’t just saying that billionaires are illegitimate. She’s effectively saying that becoming a billionaire is impossible, so don’t even try.This fundamental rejection of entrepreneurship’s power is the greatest danger of the socialist worldview rising on the left, of which AOC is the foremost tribune. By now, every American knows what policies and programs the socialists want — more wealth distribution, more government welfare, more care and feeding at the benevolent hand of Big Brother or Sister.But the heart of this ideology isn’t simply the idea that people should get more from others. The corresponding belief is that people should also give less to others. While it’s tempting to chalk this up to laziness or envy, the real message is one of self-doubt. Socialism teaches its followers that entrepreneurship is doomed to fail — that entrepreneurs themselves are deluded and in denial. Who would want to take a road they’ve been told can only dead-end?AOC CALLED OUT FOR CLAIM THAT BILLIONAIRES ‘CAN’T EARN’ THEIR WEALTH AS SHE DOUBLES DOWN ON REMARKSThis is nothing less than a frontal assault on the human spirit. America became the world’s most prosperous and equal country precisely because people aimed to become rich — millionaires, hundred millionaires, and now billionaires. Not by leeching off society, but by lifting up society. The essence of entrepreneurship is the idea that you can improve your life by helping others improve their lives. The most successful entrepreneurs have done that in spades, becoming rich by enriching daily life for countless others.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONScience buttresses this phenomenon. Abraham Maslow — the founder of humanistic psychology — argued that humans can achieve what he called “synergy.” Our innate selfishness fuses with our capacity for unselfishness, pushing us to succeed by fostering success in our community. Entrepreneurs embody this way of thinking, and in America more than anywhere else on earth or in history, start-up founders and basement tinkerers have proved that Maslow’s synergy is both achievable and awesomely beneficial for every level of society.But nobody benefits when fewer people strive to make a billion dollars. No one wins if would-be entrepreneurs deny their own ability to make a difference. Such fear and self-loathing are especially likely among younger generations, especially the 62% of Americans under 30 who hold a favorable view of socialism. Politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are all but telling them to ignore the better angels of their nature — to neglect their own incredible capacity for excellence, achievement, and contribution.The good news is that human nature is hard to suppress. Even as Gen Z is the most likely to support AOC-style socialism, its members are increasingly embracing their inner entrepreneur. A recent survey found that 43% of Gen Z is considering starting a business or side hustle in 2026, beating Millennials and Gen X. But there’s no guarantee that younger generations make good on this desire. Loud voices — like AOC — are encouraging them to put their faith in the state instead of themselves. The battle for Gen Z’s soul is very much up in the air.This is a battle that free-marketeers must win. We won’t reach Gen Z by merely mocking AOC or maligning her admittedly awful ideas. No, we have to appeal directly to the very spirit she’s dismissing — the innate human drive to rise and thrive. It’s not enough to say in the abstract that billionaires are good for the rest of us. Far more important is the message that you could be the best billionaire yet.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JOHN TILLMAN

I’m a free trader, but I also understand that for competitiveness and strategic reasons, President Trump’s trade tariffs are used as leverage to help make trade freer and fairer. He’s a master negotiator, who has used the tariff threat to force other nations to play by the rules and level the playing field. But some specific tariffs don’t make sense, and instead of saving jobs, they raise prices for consumers – especially when there is no viable domestic producer here at home.  In these cases, the “affordability” issue – real and in some cases imagined – is made worse for families.  Many grocery items have risen by 25 to 30% in recent years, and the price of canned goods – from peas to peaches – has risen 40 percent during the same period. If these prices keep rising, voters will get angrier and Republicans will feel the wrath of the voters in November. Which brings us back to tariffs. Canned goods are more expensive today in no small part because of the tariff on imported “tinplate steel” for metal cans of fruits and veggies and those costs get passed on to prices paid at the grocery check-out line. Short-sighted trade policy is largely to blame.WHITE HOUSE ‘LASER FOCUSED’ ON AFFORDABILITY AS TRUMP SOFTENS TARIFF STRATEGYU.S. steel manufacturers have been scaling back tinplate production in recent years, which has forced U.S. can makers to source more tinplate from abroad. The can makers import approximately 70 percent of the tinplate steel they use, up from 42 percent eight years earlier.  Tinplate steel was subject to President Trump’s 25 percent tariff in 2018. And since last June, the tariff has risen to 50 percent. Those tariffs have driven up costs for the domestic canned food industry. And those costs ultimately get passed along to consumers, in the form of higher food prices.You may not think these cost increases are a big deal, but the reality is roughly one-third of the wholesale price of canned fruits and vegetables is connected to just the cost of the can. The higher cost of cans has meant that canned fruits and vegetables are rising at almost three times the pace of all foods. But there is no offsetting benefit.The tariffs are meant to spur more domestic production. Maybe. But U.S. Steel isn’t planning on resuming production of tinplate steel, until next year at the earliest and that’s only a facility. And even if additional domestic production is brought on line next year, the volume will not come anywhere near to meeting the needs of American can manufacturers and food producers. Nor have the tariffs led to more production of American-grown canned foods. They have had the opposite effect.Even worse, as costs for the U.S. canned food industry have increased, American producers are being undercut by foreign-filled canned goods imported from countries like China. This has produced a race to the bottom for U.S. retailers. And it means that the tariffs may be costing American jobs, not saving them.In January 2026, Del Monte Foods announced it would be shuttering its operations at a fruit cannery in Modesto, California. That meant a loss of 600 full-time jobs and 800 to 900 seasonal jobs. A union representative for the workers blamed the steel tariffs, saying their impact was to “increase the cost of canned foods, making it that much more difficult for them to compete in the market against imported peaches that come in already canned.”CHINA THREATENS OUR FARMERS AND FOOD SUPPLY. STATES NEED TO STEP UPSo, foreigners are undercutting the prices of better American-grown and -made canned food products. Last year, more than two billion pre-filled cans of food were imported into the United States.   This growing dependence on China to meet American consumer needs creates food insecurity for those who need it most, as well as uncertainty for U.S. farmers who can’t compete on price with lower-quality Chinese food imports.  Because of the tariffs, American consumers are left with an unfortunate choice: paying more for American-made canned food or paying less for foreign canned food that is often lower quality and less safe. That is the opposite of America First.So the tariff on cans is bad for American farmers. Bad for steelworkers and American steel companies. Bad for consumers. And bad for iconic domestic brands and products like Campbell’s soup, Green Giant corn, and Red Gold tomatoes.  It’s good for China and other American rivals.  That’s why President Trump should repeal the tinplate steel tariffs immediately. It’s a policy, to borrow a phrase from Campbell’s soup, that is “mmm, mmm BAD.”CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM STEPHEN MOORE

In an interview with the Ruthless Podcast, Representative Brandon Gill (R-Texas) gave a behind-the-scenes look at his recent viral fraud hearing and the Senate race in his home state.”I mean, we’re literally talking about people who are like finding people off the street, working with fraudulent LLCs to funnel your tax dollars to people to provide services that are not being provided,” Gill said in an interview released Friday morning. “I don’t like being called racist, but I dislike seeing our tax dollars burn every single day a whole lot more.”During a hearing of the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Gill asked an Ohio legislator whether Somali immigration has been positive for the Buckeye State. State Senator Nickie Antonio responded to Gill by saying that his question “nearly brought [her] to tears.”HOUSE GOP LAUNCHES NEW TASK FORCE, PROBES ALLEGED MEDICAID FRAUD IN OHIOMedicaid fraud in Ohio has come to the forefront after the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak uncovered fraud in the state.Vice President JD Vance’s White House Anti-Fraud Task Force and Republican nominee for governor, Vivek Ramaswamy, have emphasized the need to combat government abuse in the state.Ramaswamy told Ruthless in an interview last week that the state and federal governments have approximately $1.1 trillion in improper payments.JAMES COMER TO ACCUSE TIM WALZ OF BEING ‘ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL’ AT FRAUD HEARINGKnown for his excellent questions during hearings, Gill made headlines in April for asking a pro-choice activist what her favorite method of abortion was.Podcast co-host Josh Holmes, who spent decades advising members of Congress, highlighted Gill’s unique approach to testimony and how it’s resonating with Americans.”I know all of you that are listening and watching this have seen this gentleman performing magic tricks,” Holmes said. “It seemed like, when you were yelling at your TV screen for 10 years, like, ‘why aren’t they asking?’ ‘Why aren’t they pinning down?’ It’s like, you don’t even get the words out of your mouth, and you’re like, ‘yup, now he’s doing the thing.’ It’s incredible.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREIn an interview with Ruthless in April, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) highlighted Gill’s rising profile due to his creative approach to congressional hearingsIn recent weeks, Gill flexed his political muscles in the Lone Star State by endorsing Attorney General Ken Paxton ahead of last week’s runoff and speaking at the victory party.”I feel pretty good about it,” Gill said of Paxton’s chances. “Trump’s name is not on the ballot. We’re going to do everything we can to nationalize the election because the people are with the president. Paxton is somebody that the American people, the people of Texas, are really excited about.”Paxton joined Ruthless in an episode released Thursday morning and told the Fellas that Republicans are uniting behind him ahead of a competitive general election.Both Gill’s and Paxton’s interviews took place as part of the Ruthless Midterm Interview Series, an ongoing initiative to interview major candidates across the country. The hosts have already interviewed candidates in 15 states, with more scheduled ahead of the November midterms.Texans will head to the polls for the general election on November 3rd.

For years, I have told various people in politics, the media and the financial world that the most impressive investment CEO I have ever encountered is fictional. One who came from nothing; identified with the working-class over the elites; established a persona deliberately meant to be underestimated by his snobbish competitors; and truly prized morality over money.That fictional CEO being Lawrence Garfield. The lead character played to perfection by Danny DeVito in the 1991 film “Other People’s Money.” Within the body of the movie, the New York City-based Garfield character shouts out an amazingly prescient warning as if envisioning the coming capitalistic-destroying and liberty-robbing edicts of far-left, socialist- and communist-embracing politicians such as New York City Democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.While dressing down a conference room full of lawyers he has on retainer, the fictional billionaire CEO lectures in part: “Congratulations. You’re destroying the capitalist system. While everybody else in the world is embracing it, my boys and girls are f—ing it up! You know what happens when capitalism gets f—ed up? The communists come back. They come out of the bushes. Don’t kid yourself. They’re waiting in there…”Thirty-five years ago, Garfield saw the danger cresting over the horizon. Today, his fictionalized warning in the defense of capitalism, a free-market system, and our very Republic has become a horrifying reality.BISHOP BARRON SLAMS ‘BORDERLINE COMMUNISTS’ SANDERS, MAMDANI AHEAD OF TRUMP PRAYER EVENT: ‘ECONOMY THAT KILLS’The “communists” are no longer waiting in the bushes. They are back. They are among us. We deny this treacherous blossoming reality at our own peril. Fortunately – and to the outright despair of the Democratic Leadership – an increasing number of Americans across a broad political, socioeconomic and age spectrum are suddenly opening their eyes to the job-, education-, safety-, city- and nation-destroying effects of socialist and communist mandates forced upon the people by far left elites existing in bubbles of entitlement. Elites who seek to smear or cancel Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin while singing the praises of despots such as Lenin, Stalin, Marx, and Mao.  For older Americans, the increasingly strident pronouncements from the likes of Mamdani, AOC and Wilson are a stark reminder of the often brutal – and failed – regimes of East Germany, the Soviet Union and a collapsing Cuba. Older Americans who witnessed those nations crumble into anarchy as the socialist and communist controlled “Nanny States” deprived citizens of the right to think for themselves; to do what was in the best interests of them and their families; or even escape the dystopian landscapes created by totalitarian ideologies.FROM SOVIET REFUGEE TO AMERICAN PATRIOT: WHY WE MUST GUARD AGAINST SOCIALISM’S DANGEROUS CREEP INTO OUR CITIESIn another stroke of bad news for the Democratic leadership, many of these “older” Americans are now taking the time to educate the younger Americans in their lives – be they children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, or work, faith, or social colleagues – about the dangerous pitfalls of socialism and communism. Younger Americans who do not yet know that the “free is for me” mantra is a power-and-control grab masquerading as a utopian paradise.Fortunately, along with the older Americans in their lives who witnessed the evils of socialism and communism, are millions of Americans who lived it and fled to our shores. Naturalized Americans who escaped the Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Venezuela, Cuba and even North Korea.Wise and patriotic Americans only too happy to tell those ignorant of the dangers of socialism and communism the cold, hard, and life- and nation-saving truth. And now, thanks to Mamdani, AOC, Wilson and other far-left Democrats, they have multiple real-time Bolshevik examples to flag.CRITICS SAY MAMDANI’S VOW TO SWAP ‘RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM’ WITH ‘WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM’ HAS SINISTER UNDERTONEFrom now until the November midterms, Americans who either witnessed or escaped the menace of socialism and communism will be explaining what “collectivism” really means. Why the taking of money and property from those who earned it and built it is anti-American. And why homeownership is not only not “racist,” but the epitome of the American dream. To that “racist” point, in a piece for The Hill headlined, “Mamdani introduces New York to socialism, ‘block by block’” legal scholar Jonathan Turley quoted Mamdani aide Cea Weaver who was only too happy to spell out the “collective” pain coming our way. Via a past post, she declared in part: “Private property including and [sic] kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of White supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”Wow. The overriding dictate of the narratives being embraced by Mamdani, AOC, Wilson and a number of Democratic leaders being: “You will bend and break for the greater good of the collective … or else.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWith growing frequency, we are seeing this “Free is for Me … Demonize the Rich” tactic take root in New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and multiple other cities controlled by the left. How fast is it spreading? According to a recent piece in Politico titled “Socialism’s next test: Swing states,” the answer is … very fast. That acknowledged, the good news is that only a small number of Americans – along with seemingly the entire Democratic leadership – have bought into the false promises and outright lies of socialism and communism.Over three decades ago, the fictional New York City-investment CEO Lawrence Garfield saw the red tide of communism rising and screamed out a warning. Back in today’s real world, an increasing number of Americans are finally starting to see the poisonous brew of socialism and communism being peddled by AOC, Mamdani, Wilson and the greater Democratic Party for what it is.The word is spreading like wildfire and come November, during the 250th Anniversary year of our founding, the American people should soundly reject socialism and communism.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DOUGLAS MACKINNON

Customs and Border Protection stopped two separate vehicles and confiscated over $300,000 worth of narcotics over the span of a day.The apprehensions continue to demonstrate the high volume of narcotics that smugglers are attempting to bring across the southern U.S. border, even as immigration numbers have plummeted in recent months.On Sunday, May 17, agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry referred a 2013 Honda Civic for secondary inspection. After an imaging system detected anomalies in the car’s firewall, they discovered six packages of white fentanyl powder worth roughly $113,600 along with 8.4 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $161,600.CBP OFFICERS SEIZE OVER $14M OF ALLEGED METHAMPHETAMINE AT SOUTHERN BORDERThat same day at the Calexico East Port of Entry, about 100 miles away, a 2011 Nissan Cube was also sent to secondary inspection. Agents there discovered 63 packets of methamphetamine after a scan of that vehicle detected anomalies in its flooring.Officials praised both detections.”Sunday may be a day of rest for many, but criminals don’t take days off, and neither do our CBP officers,” San Diego Director of Field Operations Sidney Aki said”Our officers remain vigilant around the clock, and these significant seizures are a direct result of their commitment to keeping dangerous drugs like these from entering our country.”SOUTHERN BORDER APPREHENSIONS PLUNGE MORE THAN 90% FROM YEAR AGO IN APRIL, CBP SAYSThe agency believes its operations are a continuation of efforts laid out by President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, even as immigration border crossings have come down.Since the end of 2024, border crossings have plummeted, going from over 144,000 encounters in December 2024 to just 10,000 in April.Even so, CBP has reported several high-profile smuggling attempts that have sought to bring weapons, narcotics and humans across the U.S. border.ARREST OF GANG MEMBER CONVICTED OF MURDER PUTS DEM STATE’S SANCTUARY POLICIES ON BLASTRecently, CBP has released reports on how it had prevented a car carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher from crossing the border, detected dozens of immigrants crammed into a semi-truck and even detained a boat off the coast of the Dominican Republic with the help of a Black Hawk helicopter.”CBP officers along the southwest border stop illegal activity, including the smuggling of drugs and humans, and facilitate lawful entry for millions of legitimate travelers into the United States,” CBP said in a statement.