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   From: barack@obama.com   
      
   NOGALES, Ariz. — Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection   
   (CBP) here are increasingly on the hunt for a nefarious drug   
   wreaking havoc across the U.S., inspecting cars top to bottom as   
   smugglers try to bring heroin across the border.   
      
   DEA figures show a four-fold increase in heroin seizures along   
   the southwest border since 2008, with 4,653 pounds being   
   confiscated last year.   
      
   Most of it was hidden in cars and trucks driven across the   
   nearly 2,000-mile-long border in California, Arizona, New Mexico   
   and Texas.   
      
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   “You can hide the heroin anywhere from bumper to bumper, roof to   
   floor and anywhere in between,” said CBP Port Director Lupe   
   Ramirez.   
      
   Increasingly, agents are also seeing heroin being hand-carried   
   from Mexico in backpacks across rugged deserts and remote   
   American ranchland.   
      
   “We have had heroin strapped to a child, heroin strapped to a   
   grandmother, heroin in a stroller, heroin in a car seat,”   
   Ramirez said.   
      
        
      
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