Customs Border Patrol do NOT play

I work in import/export compliance. As a result, I signed up for notifications from Customs Border Patrol concerning their news releases. Most of the time, I get updates on changes in laws and stuff like that. Today I got an email about a major drug bust in Texas.
Agents doing their normal checks with the drug dogs found over 1700 pounds of marijuana that was hidden in the floor of a tractor trailer truck. The seized contraband has an estimated street value of $1.4 million.
When I read it, I was thinking that they are trying to win the war on illegal drugs. But then I stopped to wonder about all the other shipments that probably got through undetected. How many crooked officials look the other way? How many people are dying because of drug-related incidents?
And as I pondered all of this, I had to keep in mind that this system is like the shop that is going out of business. I cannot expect there to be any real successes in conquering the evil with the current situation.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/12132008.xml