Millions of dollars have been spent on high-tech scanners to detect fentanyl coming across the U.S.-Mexico border, but many of the devices remain in warehouses and unused because Congress has not appropriated enough money to install them, according to acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy Miller.
“We do have technology that’s in the warehouse that has been tested,” Miller told NBC News during a tour of a port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, where about half of the fentanyl coming into the United States is seized, the network reported Tuesday. “But we need approximately $300 million [to] actually put the technology in the ground. It’s extremely frustrating.”
The technology is known as Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII). It allows the Border Patrol to X-ray vehicles passing through the large, U-shaped scanners to determine if there is fentanyl inside.
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