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Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)

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U.S. Coast Guard Takes on Drug Cartels and Human Smugglers in Operation Pacific Viper

The United States Coast Guard launched Operation Pacific Viper: a surge in forces to the Eastern Pacific to stop the cartels and criminal organizations – cutting off drugs and human smuggling before it reaches American shores.

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DHS Hits Back at Tim Walz’s Dangerous Rhetoric Comparing ICE to Gestapo

DHS is setting the facts straight on the bravery of our ICE enforcement agents. Every day they risk their lives to arrest vicious criminal illegal aliens let into our country by the previous administration.  

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ICE Arrests Gang Members, Drug Traffickers, Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens in Sanctuary State Massachusetts

DHS announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successfully detained and removed criminal illegal aliens from the sanctuary state of Massachusetts. 

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ICE Arrests MS-13 Gang Member with Extensive Rap Sheet in Maryland After Sanctuary Politicians Allow Repeated Arrest and Release

DHS announced a significant arrest by Baltimore Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of a validated MS-13 gang member. 

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OSLLE Webinar Series

To help share timely information and resources on relevant homeland security topics with our SLTTC law enforcement partners, OSLLE has established a webinar series. This page shares information on that program.

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Written testimony of USCG for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing titled “A Dangerous and Sophisticated Adversary: The Threat to the Homeland Posed by Cartel Operations”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Deputy Commandant for Operations Vice Admiral Charles Ray addresses the Coast Guard’s role in combating transnational organized crime and the smuggling of illicit drugs.

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Written testimony of USCG Commandant for a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard hearing titled “Assessing the Coast Guard's Increasing Duties: A focus on drug and migrant interdiction”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft addresses Coast Guard missions.

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Written testimony of USCG for a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation hearing titled “Western Hemisphere Drug Interdiction Efforts”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Deputy Commandant for Operations VADM Charles Michel addresses the Coast Guard’s Drug Interdiction mission.

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Written testimony of USCG Commandant for a House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and House Committee on Foreign Affairs joint subcommittee hearing titled “Confronting Transnational Drug Smuggling: An Assessment of Regional Partnerships”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant Admiral Robert Papp, Jr. addresses the Coast Guard’s Drug Interdiction mission.

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Written Testimony of USCG Commandant Admiral Robert Papp Jr. for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing titled “Future of the Homeland Security Missions of the Coast Guard”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant Admiral Robert Papp Jr. addresses the Coast Guard’s homeland security missions.