It is established fact that Biden administration policies have allowed a vast increase in illegal border crossings. Indeed, ending the Stay-in-Mexico policy has been a major administration push. Have the illegal crossings also contributed to the surge in drug smuggling, particularly fentanyl? This right-leaning article tries to make the case though some of the logic is suspect.
Biden's Broken Border is a five-part Washington Examiner series highlighting the border security records President Joe Biden has shattered in less than two years in office and the trickle-down effects that the crisis is having on the United States. Part One looked at how Biden already broke the…
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Federal police at the nation's borders are making massive seizures, but they simply cannot wall off the United States from drug smugglers eager to flood every corner of the country with fentanyl "It's a constant problem," said Guadalupe H. Ramirez, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s director of field operations for the Tucson, Arizona, region, adding that Mexican cartels "flood the port" knowing that despite what his officers manage to interdict, plenty will get past them.
The surge has had fatal consequences. U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 45 years old are more likely to die from consuming fentanyl than they are to die as the result of a car crash, the coronavirus, a heart attack, suicide, or a terrorist attack. Fentanyl overdoses were a driving force behind the record-high 100,000 overdose deaths last year.
Clearly, prior to about 2015 fentanyl was not as significant. Some of this shift must be attributed to the conversion from opium and cocaine related drugs to manufactured ones. However, there does seem to be a tie between increased illegal human traffic and increased illegal drug traffic.
You can add this opinion piece from Greta van Susteren.