@Reason10 LOL,! Reason Zero, you are ill informed.
July 16, 2025: CBP officers at the Hidalgo Port of Entry seized over $886,000 in narcotics.
July 15, 2025: CBP officers at the Laredo Port of Entry seized over $990,000 in cocaine at the World Trade Bridge. The Department of Justice highlighted several DEA drug seizures from the first half of 2025, including: Over 1,700 pounds of methamphetamine (worth over $15 million) hidden in a vehicle in Galveston, Texas.
783 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a refrigerated truck carrying blueberries in Austin, Texas.
115 pounds of methamphetamine seized from a drug-laden vehicle in El Paso, Texas.
June 20, 2025: US Border Patrol and Mexican authorities uncovered a large drug-smuggling tunnel connecting Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California.
March 20, 2025: U.S. Border Patrol agents made two busts in a 24-hour period in the San Diego Sector, seizing a total of 160 pounds of narcotics (including 82.89 pounds of cocaine).
March 10, 2025: DEA agents near McAllen, Texas seized 1500 pounds of crystal meth worth nearly $5 million.
January 31, 2025: CBP agents at the San Luis Port of Entry in Arizona made two seizures resulting in 117 pounds of meth and 69 pounds of cocaine being confiscated. The combined value of the two seizures was over $800,000.
Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
❖ Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
❖ In 2022, U.S. citizens were 89 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—12 times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
❖ In 2023, 93 percent of fentanyl seizures occurred 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 at least 96 percent less likely to be stopped than people crossing illegally between them.
❖ At most, just 0.009 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
❖ The government exacerbated the problem by banning most legal cross-border traffic in 2020 and 2021, accelerating a switch to fentanyl (the easiest-to-conceal drug).
❖ During the travel restrictions, fentanyl seizures at ports quadrupled from fiscal year 2019 to 2021. Fentanyl went from a third of combined heroin and fentanyl seizures to over 90 percent.
❖ Annual deaths from fentanyl nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 after the government banned most travel (and asylum).
Again, all the above, as well as the paragraphs below, are from the conservative Cato Institute. https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers https://www.cato.org/blog/us-citizens-were-89-convicted-fentanyl-traffickers-2022 It is monstrous that tens of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily every year from fentanyl. But banning asylum and limiting travel backfired. Reducing deaths requires figuring out the cause, not jumping to blame a group that is not responsible. Instead of attacking immigrants, policymakers should focus on effective solutions that help people at risk of a fentanyl overdose.
U.S. Citizens Bring Fentanyl Through Legal Crossing Points
That U.S. citizens account for most fentanyl trafficking convictions is not surprising given the location of fentanyl border seizures. In 2023, 93 percent of fentanyl border seizures occurred at legal border crossings and interior vehicle checkpoints (and 91 percent of drug seizures at checkpoints are from U.S. citizens—only 4 percent by “potentially removable” immigrants). In 2022, so far, Border Patrol agents who were not at vehicle checkpoints accounted for just 7 percent of the fentanyl seizures near the border (Figure 2). Of that 7 percent, CBP has testified the majority was seized from vehicle stops, again usually from U.S. citizens. Since it is easier for U.S. citizens to cross legally than noncitizens, it makes sense for fentanyl producers to hire U.S. citizen smugglers.
The DEA reports that criminal organizations “exploit major highway routes for transportation, and the most common method employed involves smuggling illicit drugs through U.S. [ports of entry] in passenger vehicles with concealed compartments or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor-trailers.” Several agencies including CBP, ICE, and DHS intelligence told Congress in May 2022 the same thing: hard drugs come through ports of entry.
@Vin53 @ElwoodBlues Those animals are not asylum seekers. They are ILLEGAL ALIENS. And President Trump has enforced the borders. The Fentanyl has mostly been stopped.
ICE is doing its part to weed out those 10 million animals who Unelected Joe allowed into the country. They are the ones who brought the Fentanyl. And ICE is getting rid of those animals.
Honestly, HP Lovecraft villager Marjorie and Botox Barbie Noem likely use meth. That's white nationalist's drug of choice so it's likely that they don't want to solve the crises or otherwise there wouldn't be enough to go around.
lets check border crossings and fet seizures over the past month and ask why you wanna give a bunch of nobodies who arnt spending it wisely 140M to burn?.
all you do is shill for the thieves... as long as you give it a orange man bad slant!
