I used to be one of those jackbooted bording officers. Yeah they would whine about how intimidated they were until we pulled a couple of bails of BC Bud out of the engine hold of their sailboat.
Another bleeding heart had $350M in cocaine on their sport fishing boat.
We had others with illegals aboard.
The CG has the widest jurisdiction of any law enforcement body in the US. They can stop a US flag vessel anywhere in the world.
You want your borders protected, that means your ports and the navigable waters.
Funny how the "seal the border" crowd and the "CG are Jackbooted thugs" crowd... are all the same people.
It's "almost" funny.