In just one month, U.S. authorities confiscate enough fentanyl to kill combined populations of California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas
07/05/2024 // Ethan Huff // 540 Views
In a single month, Mexican drug cartels brought in enough ultra-deadly fentanyl to kill between 54 and 127 million Americans, or roughly the combined populations of the states of California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, new data shows.One of the deadliest narcotic epidemics in history, the fentanyl crisis started long before Joe Biden and even Donald Trump were in the White House. The drugs are said to come from China, which hands them off to murderous cartels and their allies in Mexico for import into the United States.
Back in 2019, Trump quietly pressured Chinese President Xi Jinping to crack down on illegal fentanyl production in his country. Barack Obama, in the final days of his presidency, refused to do the same, handing the problem over to Trump who tried to work with major shipping companies like FedEx to refuse all fentanyl deliveries.
Trump's efforts were successful in that they resulted in substantially lower fentanyl shipments at the border. The problem is that after Biden took over, the border was opened back up immediately on the day of Biden's inauguration.
"He ended all funding to Trump's border wall – which helped Border Patrol isolate threats to key spots along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border – and declared the emergency over, sneering that it was 'unwarranted,'" one media report explains about what Biden did on day one.
https://www.alipac.us/f9/just-one-month-u-s-authorities-confiscate-enough-fentanyl-kill-combined-popul-421799/
