Low-level drug smugglers are regularly arrested thousands of miles from the US and can be held on Coast Guard ships for months at a time before landing on America’s shores to be arraigned. “These fishermen-turned-smugglers are caught in international waters, or in foreign seas, and often have little or no understanding of where the drugs aboard their boats are ultimately bound. Yet nearly all of these boatmen are now carted from the Pacific and delivered to the United States to face criminal charges here, in what amounts to a vast extraterritorial exertion of American legal might.” From the NYT Magazine: The Coast Guard’s Floating Guantánamos.