Drug cartels south of the U.S. border will keep coming up with new paths to get their contraband where they want it to go, including now with unmanned semi-submersible watercraft to circumvent the Trump administration’s efforts to keep them out, Sheriff Roy Boyd of Goliad County, Texas, told Newsmax on Sunday.

“You have to look at the cartels like water,” said Boyd on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “They’re always going to come up with a new path to get where they need to go. And so with these new unmanned semi-submersibles that they have, they have the capacity to bring folks to the Gulf of America. We’ve seen that through some of our investigations, thanks to the efforts of the men and women of Border Patrol, sealing off the river and the land border.”

The cartels have also moved to bringing people through the Gulf and into the United States in areas like Florida and Alabama, he added.

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