Coast Guard’s biggest cocaine seizure supports Trump’s drug war efforts

The Coast Guard seized almost 510,000 kilos of cocaine in fiscal yr 2025, marking the most important quantity of the drug seized within the company’s complete historical past.

The rise in cocaine seizures comes because the Coast Guard has launched a number of main initiatives in latest months as a part of President Donald Trump’s bigger efforts to crack down on drug cartels.

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The quantity the company seized quantities to 193 million probably deadly doses — sufficient to hazard greater than half of the U.S. inhabitants, in accordance with the Coast Guard. Furthermore, it quantities to greater than 3 times the company’s annual common, which equates to roughly 167,000 kilos of cocaine per yr.

Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem appears to be like out throughout an air tour with an HC-130J plane from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak on March 17, 2025, in Kodiak Station, Alaska. (Alex Brandon/AFP through Getty Photographs)

“The Coast Guard’s prime precedence is to attain full operational management of the U.S. border and maritime approaches,” Adm. Kevin Lunday, appearing commander of the Coast Guard, mentioned in an announcement to Fox Information Digital. “We personal the ocean, and this historic quantity of cocaine seized reveals that we’re defeating narco-terrorist and cartel operations to guard our communities and hold harmful medicine off our streets.”

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The Coast Guard has launched a number of high-profile operations to additional Trump’s campaign towards medicine. In August, the Coast Guard launched Operation Pacific Viper, a joint effort between the U.S. Coast Guard and the Navy aimed toward stemming the move of unlawful medicine into the U.S.

In October, the Coast Guard reported seizing 100,000 kilos of cocaine within the Japanese Pacific throughout Operation Pacific Viper since August, which the company mentioned was a median of 1,600 kilos of cocaine per day.

U.S. Coast Guard crew members offload seized cocaine in San Diego following Operation Pacific Viper, which netted greater than 40,000 kilos of narcotics by means of a number of interdictions within the Japanese Pacific. (Coast Guard)

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As well as, the company introduced it might enhance its forces alongside the Rio Grande River in Texas to assist Trump’s border safety mission and curb the move of medication into the nation as a part of a “surge operation.” Referred to as Operation River Wall, the company mentioned it might deploy further response boats, shallow water vessels, command and management property and tactical groups to the realm to assist the operation.

The second Trump administration has taken aggressive steps to limit the move of medication into the US, designating drug cartel teams equivalent to Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa and others as international terrorist organizations in February.

The US killed six alleged drug traffickers on a ship in worldwide waters close to Venezuela, President Donald Trump introduced on October 14, 2025. (realDonaldTrump/Fact Social)

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Equally, the White Home issued a memo to lawmakers on September 30 notifying them that the US is taking part in a “non-international armed battle” with drug traffickers and has carried out greater than 15 assaults on ships off the coast of Venezuela and within the japanese Pacific Ocean.

Nevertheless, lawmakers have questioned the legality of those assaults, and Senators Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., launched a battle powers decision that might ban U.S. navy forces from partaking in “hostilities” towards Venezuela.