Commentary
An estimated 20 million Americans are addicted to drugs. Fentanyl alone accounted for two-thirds of the 110,236 overdose deaths and killed over 73,000 Americans in 2021 alone. Fentanyl is now the main narcotic Mexican cartels are smuggling into the United States.
The flow of illegal drugs through the southern border is the largest security threat to our nation and the one that the Biden administration is doing the least about.
More drugs are being seized at the southern border than anywhere else in the nation, with over 5,000 pounds seized in San Diego alone. The DEA reports that Mexican cartels are increasingly importing precursor chemicals from China and manufacturing fentanyl to be sold in the United States….