Biden's Open Border Policies...
Is anyone here in the current administration boasting about these issues?
Drug overdoses have claimed the lives of over 100,000 people in the United States - Fentanyl was reportedly the cause of two-thirds of them. According to the CDC, Fentanyl is now the number one cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45.
MEXICO
Mexican TCOs are producing increased quantities of fentanyl and illicit fentanyl-containing tablets, with
some TCOs using increasingly sophisticated clandestine laboratories and processing methods (i.e.,
laboratory grade glassware, unregulated chemicals, and industrial size tablet presses). DEA, working in
conjunction with Mexican officials, has seized and dismantled numerous fentanyl pill pressing operations
and fentanyl synthesis laboratories in 2018 and 2019, highlighting the role TCOs play in supplying the US
fentanyl market. Fentanyl is smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border in low concentration, high-volume
loads, kilogram seizures often contain less than a 10 percent concentration of fentanyl.
TCOs are also increasingly producing wholesale quantities of illicit fentanyl pills and smuggling them into
the United States. In December 2018, Mexican officials in combination with DEA authorities seized an
illicit pill mill in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City. Law enforcement officials seized illicit fentanyl-laced oxycodone
M-30 pills, suspected fentanyl powder, precursor chemicals and multiple other items related to the
production of fentanyl-laced illicit pills. As with the Mexicali, Mexico fentanyl pill mill seized in September
2018, DEA reporting indicated the organization operating the pill mill in Mexico City is linked to the Sinaloa
Cartel.
DEA reporting continues to indicate the Sinaloa and the New Generation Jalisco (Cártel de Jalisco
Nueva Generación or CJNG) cartels are likely the primary trafficking groups responsible for smuggling
fentanyl into the United States from Mexico. To date, the fentanyl synthesis and fentanyl pill production
operations dismantled in Mexico have either occurred in territories controlled by these cartels or have
had involvement by members/associates of these cartels. In addition, these TCOs are known to control
the trafficking corridors in Mexico that connect to California and Arizona, indicating drugs passing through
these associated areas would need to be approved by these organizations.
Nearly 750 migrants have died crossing the border in the fiscal year to set a grim record.