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Plaskett Joins Congressional Colleagues in Push to Stop Drug Trafficking Between USVI, PR, and Florida

Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett announced Friday that she recently joined her colleague Rep. Jennifer González-Colón (PR) to introduce The Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act, along with  Senators Rick Scott and Alex Padilla who introduced the bill on the Senate side. According to the congresswoman, the Act is designed to stop the illegal trafficking of deadly drugs in the Caribbean, specifically between Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida. This bill builds off prior appropriations report language requiring that a Caribbean Border Counternarcotic Strategy is published by the White House Office of National Drug Policy along with the National Drug Control Strategy, the Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy, and the Northern Border Counternarcotics Strategy, Ms. Plaskett said. “With a keen awareness that the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, along with the remainder of the Caribbean and South America are gateways for international drug trafficking, my tea...