US Citizens smuggling drugs not asylum: U.S. Citizens Were 89% of Convicted Fentanyl Traffickers in 2022

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I had read awhile ago that it was mostly US citizens who smuggle in Fentanyl. And now I just ran across these articles.


US Citizens smuggling drugs not asylum seekers.

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August 23, 2023 11:11AM

U.S. Citizens Were 89% of Convicted Fentanyl Traffickers in 2022
https://www.cato.org/blog/us-citizens-were-89-convicted-fentanyl-traffickers-2022

By David J. Bier


This updates an earlier post.

Fentanyl overdoses tragically caused tens of thousands of preventable deaths last year. Many politicians who want to end U.S. asylum law claim that immigrants crossing the border illegally are responsible. An NPR‐​Ipsos poll found that 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.

Here are the facts:

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.
Each individual busted for fentanyl by Border Patrol possessed, on average, half as much fentanyl as each person busted at ports of entry in 2023 (10 versus 20 pounds).
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin
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The fentanyl epidemic doesn’t know county or party lines. This impacts us all, which means it’s going to take all of us to fight this crisis. I’m grateful to have Waukesha Police Chief Thompson with me at the #SOTU as we push toward our shared goal of ending this deadly epidemic.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. Republican verifies that republicans are the main abusers of fentanyl.

Republican verifies that republicans are the main abusers of fentanyl.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216683046

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-voter-deaths-fentanyl-via-border-does-look-intentional-jd-vance-1702428

J.D. Vance’s claim that Biden is targeting ‘MAGA voters’ with fentanyl

“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl? … It does look intentional. It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.”

[brewens]

2. Here's one of the stupidest videos I've seen. I'm sure the cartel would give two jokers like this a fortune in drugs

to sneak over the border. Dress them up so they stick out like two turds in a punchbowl and never mind Border Patrol right there.

Notice that when they come over the fence, there is a white vehicle there, but you can't tell if it's Border Patrol or not. The other looks we get a Border Patrol aren't even in the same shot, just glimpses of BP that could have been anywhere.

Dressed in black like two ninja drug runners with identical homemade packs. Not dressed like any other Mexican kids with the same kind of packs you'd see any kid with today.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Tiki torcher Trumpster republican smuggling fentanyl

Tiki torcher Trumpster republican smuggling fentanyl

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143033987

Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial

$215 for smuggling fentanyl.

[RussBLib]

4. Almost every day....

....there is a story on local news about another U.S. citizen nabbed at the border, or at one of the BP checkpoints up to 100 miles inside Texas, with several pounds of fentanyl or meth. It pays well to pose as a mule to be a drug-runner, and since this is basically an economically depressed area (deep S TX), there are a lot of willing mules. Only rarely do I see a story about Mexican Nationals getting popped at the border.

So yeah, Republicans are lying about how drugs are getting into this country, but should we be surprised? No. Lying is about all they have left, and with educational levels dropping in this country.....

https://russblib.blogspot.com/

[riversedge]

5. I am not surprised that Republicans are promoting violence against immigrants-it is what they DO!!!