Border Patrol agents have seized over 2,700 lbs of fentanyl coming between the ports of entry, more than enough to kill the entire U.S. population.
in 2022. Fentanyl is the most prominent opioid, which is produced primarily in Mexico using Chinese precursors and then trafficked across the southern border. The drug is 50-100 times stronger than morphine and is often cut with other drugs, meaning that the user doesn’t know they are ingesting fentanyl.
While opioid deaths have risen sharply in recent years, the Biden administration has pointed to data suggesting overdose numbers are slowing and has to its drug strategy -- which involves going after smugglers, increasing technology at ports of entryA U.S. Border Patrol agent stands on a cliff looking for migrants that crossed the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico near the city of Sasabe, Arizona, on Jan. 23, 2022., particularly over its handling of the crisis at the southern border, which they say has exacerbated the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.
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