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Chuck Schumer did vote for a 1986 law, the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, that expanded U.S. authority over suspected drug-smuggling vessels — a vote sometimes summarized as permitting military fo...
Senator Chuck Schumer—then a New York member of the House—voted for the Anti‑Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which included the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement provisions that expanded U.S. authority to prosecu...
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) of 1986 gives the United States broad law‑enforcement jurisdiction to board, seize, and prosecute drug trafficking on vessels on the high seas and to trea...
Chuck Schumer did vote in favor of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act package in 1986 that included the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement provisions; the MDLEA was enacted as part of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act and...
Most illegal drugs enter the United States through organized smuggling networks that exploit ports of entry, maritime routes, air and land corridors, and the mail; law enforcement reports and think‑ta...
Recent media analyses converge on one central finding: estimates of taxpayer costs from Donald Trump’s golf trips vary widely but consistently show spent, driven by transportation and security expense...
The reporting presents several consistent claims: U.S. authorities have broadened their tools to detect and track suspected drug-smuggling vessels—using satellites, signals intelligence, uncrewed airc...
The United States relies primarily on maritime law-enforcement statutes (notably the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and related statutes such as the Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act) and bi...
The reporting and analyses provided show that taxpayers spent on presidential travel and security tied to Donald Trump’s Mar‑a‑Lago visits, but estimates vary widely by method and time period. Indepen...
The Coast Guard may lawfully use force, including potentially lethal force, under domestic statutes that authorize maritime drug interdiction and the Service’s Surface Use of Force policy, but that au...
U.S. forces have carried out dozens of strikes on small vessels since September 2025, with reporting putting the toll at more than 70–87 people killed in over a dozen to 22 strikes; the administration...
The Vietnam-era draft deferments were widespread and affected many Americans including prominent politicians; rather than frontline induction. Contemporary reporting and retrospective fact checks show...
The United States has sharply escalated pressure on Venezuela in 2025 with a sustained mix of sanctions, legal action, military deployments, covert operations authorizations and at-sea strikes — culmi...
Since Congress enacted the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) in 1986 to push U.S. drug prosecutions onto the high seas, courts and the Department of Defense (and related military actors) have ...
Maritime drug trafficking to the United States commonly uses two broad corridors: the Caribbean Sea (from northern South America including Venezuela and Colombia toward the Caribbean and U.S. Southeas...
The U.S. government has broad statutory authority to interdict, board, search and seize vessels suspected of drug trafficking under laws such as the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and the Drug Traf...
The United States has recently carried out a sustained campaign of strikes on small vessels it says were smuggling narcotics, beginning in early September and expanding across the Caribbean and into t...
The available reporting shows the U.S. Secret Service and local authorities incurred to protect Mar-a-Lago, with federal procurement records documenting over $1.4 million in perimeter security contrac...
Congress’s FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations—at least as reported in House committee text and analyzed by the Congressional Research Service—allocates roughly $11.0 billion to U.S. Immigration a...
Smugglers use multiple, evolving routes into the United States at the southwest border: official ports of entry (POEs) are a primary venue for drug smuggling because of volume and concealment opportun...