Besides the record number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S. southern border in 2021, drug smuggling and drug overdoses are at an all-time high. Last year, fentanyl overdoses were the leading cause of death for people aged 18 to 45 years.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he is deeply concerned that so many of his constituents have been affected by this influx of illicit drugs.
“So many of the people that I have talked to know a neighbor or relative who has died from a fentanyl overdose. Not even people who are trying to take fentanyl or heroin or anything else, but they may be smoking marijuana and it’s laced with fentanyl and they die from the fentanyl,” Buck told NTD Capitol Report during a recent interview….