WFB: Fentanyl seizures in 2021 have nearly doubled 2020 numbers, according to records quietly released by Customs and Border Protection.
The “Drug Seizure Statistics” tool run by the agency disclosed on Monday that agents already seized 9,337 pounds of fentanyl by the end of July, a 94 percent increase from the 4,791 pounds seized in the entirety of 2020. In 2019, the agency seized just 2,804 pounds. CBP did not publicly announce the updated statistics.
According to CBP’s data, the vast majority of fentanyl seizures—1,110—have taken place at the southwest border, highlighting how the migrant crisis creates opportunities for cartels and other criminal organizations as law enforcement finds its resources strained. The influx of fentanyl also comes at a time when overdoses from the drug are set to break all-time records this year.
In 2020, more than 93,000 Americans died from drug overdoses—a 29 percent increase from the previous year and the biggest one-year jump since 2016. President Joe Biden declared the week of Aug. 29 as “Overdose Awareness Week,” pledging a “strong response … to reduce the supply of illicit drugs.” Since 1991, 841,000 Americans have died from a drug overdose, with 70 percent of those deaths caused by opioids.
Experts say that just two milligrams of fentanyl can cause a lethal overdose to people with no tolerance for the drug, meaning the amount of the drug seized by CBP through July could potentially kill two billion people. A senior CBP official told the Washington Free Beacon that an increase in drugs across the southern border comes as no surprise, citing intelligence that concluded cartel operations increase during times of migrant surges. READ MORE
Joe Biden Owns this.
Biden is pushing jabs, he’s in on this also no doubt.
Dad said there wouldn’t be any more interference!
Inquiring minds want to know,
does Jackass Joe get 10%?
Pretty sure smuggling is up for Fentanyl, Heroin, Cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines, and people.
That’s the point of an open border.
If they weren’t making money on it, they wouldn’t let it happen.
Joe Biden is earning his money from China by opening the southern border
Repel all boarders!
Ready the canon with grape shot. Fire!
China has a huge supply they want to get rid of and crazy joe is the willing puppet they recruited and paid to do it!!
Who cares about fentanyl when there are people who refuse to get vaxed!
Smuggling? They don’t have to smuggle it. Open borders, the barbarians have been invited in, along with every crime, vice, disease, vermin with which they can destroy America.
Make no mistake, joe Biden can’t dress or wipe himself, let alone push every piece of crap order in us that he spouts. The sock puppet has the obamination’s cabal right up his butt.
China is at war with us.
“China is at war with us.”
Got some bad news for ya … so is our government – allied with China.
izlamo delenda est …