Earlier this week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had a hearing about the fentanyl crisis:
Lawmakers discussed potential foreign policy changes to counter the fentanyl crisis during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, emphasizing the need to crack down on Chinese and Mexican officials to stem the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), most of the fentanyl trafficked into the U.S. is produced in illicit labs in Mexico using chemicals from China.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died of drug poisonings or overdoses in the 12-month period ending in January 2022. Of those deaths, 67 percent involved fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.
The DEA has pinpointed the sources of the “vast majority” of fentanyl coming into the U.S. as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, both from Mexico, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said.
Over two years into Biden’s presidency and the lax border policies they brought with them, the @POTUS account called for a “major surge” to counter the worsening fentanyl problem:
Who wants to tell them?
The Biden administration has done neither of those things.
Maybe there’s another explanation:
Has Biden considered maybe finishing Trump’s wall?
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