WAR ON DRUGS

(AP / CBS)

As the CBP has apprehended greater numbers of people at the nation's southern border, it has also seized larger and

larger quantities of drugs.

As Congress and President Bush wrangle over the USA Patriot Act, the Border Security bill, and other tools of the war on terror, they may want to keep another law-enforcement group in mind – the nation's drug-fighters.

That's because the war on terror is proving to be a boon to the war on drugs. Drug seizures are up all along the US-Mexico border. Nowhere is the trend clearer than along a desolate 118-mile patch of Arizona desert across the border from the Mexican state of Sonora. FULL STORY