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Megmaa
An immense strain on our services, communities, and families. WE MUST put all of our intentions into stopping this drug. Don't get wrapped up in all of the other problems - this drug - this one - must be stopped. It turns the bear of our current problems into an out of control rapid bear that will create a tidal wave of economic waste and despair. Massive punishments for delivery, manufacturing, and dealing of this drug. No questions no excuses.
RobsNewsRegister
In my opinion, someone who took something that was unknowingly laced with Fentanyl didn't die of a drug overdose but was murdered. With that in mind, Fentanyl is an attack on our youth from a state actor (the PRC). It, or its ingredients, come from one place (the PRC). By killing approx. 300 of our citizens daily, disproportionately young, they deprive the USA of the lifelong economic output that individual would have contributed to society not to mention all of the other harm to our nation. CCP military scholars write extensively on this type of warfare. We as a nation had better wise up and get control of our southern border to stop this poison from entering out nation.
RobsNewsRegister
FYI - CCP military scholars call it "Soft War". For example, see Unrestricted Warfare Qiao and Wang.
john fritter
Simple. Just Ban Fentanyl!
JWC
How does the Fentanyl that is synthesized in China get from China to MacMinniville? The drug usually enters the US via Mexico.
The drug is carried by the more than 2 million illegal aliens that are encouraged to cross the border illegally by the Biden Administration. President Biden and his minions (not the adorable type) are waging war in the US, killing tens of thousands of people each year. Impeachment? Not happening!
sbagwell
According to the Cato Instittde:
Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids, nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
In 2021, U.S. citizens represented 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl traffickers, 10 times greater than the rate for illegal immigrants.
Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens, who are subject to less scrutiny, are the best smugglers.
The location of smuggling makes sense because people crossing at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped.
Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl.
Steve
RobsNewsRegister
Virtually all seizures whose locations are identified are from the Southwest border (see link - what CATO used). The raw source, regardless of end trafficker, is from the Mexican cartels via components or product from the PRC. They are using this migration wave as cover for their smuggling and have developed extensive distribution networks within the country which does use US citizens. What we don't have good data for is what gets through without contact (> half a million gotta aways per year in 2022) though the DEA seized enough last year to kill everyone in this country. This is a national security issue so hopefully Washinton gets their act together and addresses it in prompt order.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics
https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/dea-seized-enough-fentanyl-doses-to-kill-every-american-in-2022/
https://www.newsweek.com/southern-us-border-migrants-gotaways-2022-1770201
RobsNewsRegister
I wanted to thank Nicole for this informative article as I know comments sometimes come across as criticism. Also, here is my mia culpa regarding voting for the drug legalization ballot measure in 2020. I let the Libertarian in me get the better of common sense - the N/R editorial board was right in opposing measure 110 and I was wrong. If I could make one change to today's politicians and government officials, it would be their tendency to almost never admit and thus learn from mistakes.