Is that what Wikipedia told you? 😂
most traffickers caught at the border are those with legitimate reason to cross. Legally. And a good portion of those are American citizens
No, that is according to Customs and Border Patrol numbers
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics
Here are some more facts:
39 percent of Americans and 60 percent of Republicans believe, “Most of the fentanyl entering the U.S. is smuggled in by unauthorized migrants crossing the border illegally.” A more accurate summary is that fentanyl is overwhelmingly smuggled by U.S. citizens almost entirely for U.S. citizen consumers.
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*Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6968850/]
*In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
[https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles]
*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) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
[https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/2022_0427_plcy_border_security_metrics_report_FY2021_%282020_data%29.pdf]
*Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever
