This must stop.
The AP also acknowledged that fentanyl originates from China, then moves through Mexico, and thereby enters the rustbelt states. The states most impacted by fentanyl are West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio — all rural states with dominant white populations.
“The Texas Military Department said that from March 2021 through earlier this month, its troops near the border confiscated more than 1,200 pounds of fentanyl,” the AP reported. “By comparison, federal authorities reported confiscating about 11,000 pounds in 2021 — still a fraction of what entered the country.”
The Biden administration does not seem worried about the fentanyl crisis. In response to a January letter from 16 attorneys general to Secretary of State Antony Blinken thatmore pressure on China and Mexico to stop the soaring inflow of fentanyl, Biden receded Title 42. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under Biden’s direction, will terminate Title 42 in May. The law allows authorities to turn away migrants for reasons of slowing the spread of coronavirus. The receded law could allow more than 18,000 illegal crossings per day — a pace that works out to over 6.5 million migrants per year, the"For the first time, more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period.
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