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Jim Himes: “Even if we could cut off the flow of all maritime cocaine…”

Featuring: Jim Himes, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 13:26

Secondly, there are lots of ways to get cocaine in the United States. So just. If. If. Even if we could. And we can't, by the way, but Even if we could cut off the flow of all maritime cocaine into Trinidad and the Dominican Republic, there are air routes, there are overland routes. You know, thousands and thousands of people move across the Darien Gap in Panama on their way north. (13:26–13:37)

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Asserts that cocaine can still enter the U.S. through air and overland routes despite maritime interdiction.

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