Saturday, May 22, 2021

BORDER CRISIS: More Fentanyl Seized At The Border So Far This Year Than All Of 2020; Abbott: Amount of Fentanyl Caught at Border up Nearly 800% April over April, and related stories

More Fentanyl Seized At The Border So Far This Year Than All Of 2020:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection confiscated more fentanyl in the first half of 2021 than in the last three years.
CBP seized 6,494 pounds of the drug between October 2020 and April 2021, according to recently released data. Nearly 2,000 more pounds of fentanyl have been seized by CBP officials compared to last year amid the southern border surge. CBP seized 4,776 pounds in 2020 and 2,801 pounds in 2019.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott told reporters Friday that the Texas Department of Public Safety has seen an 800 percent increase from April 2020 to April 2021 of the amount of fentanyl that has been apprehended.
“We have obtained enough fentanyl coming across the border to kill every single person in the state of New York,” Abbott said.
Fentanyl is a fatal drug that is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine. Around 87,000 Americans died in 2020 from a drug overdose — the record in one year. Lora Ries, Senior Research Fellow in Homeland Security at The Heritage Foundation, told The Federalist that this is clearly a crisis and one that the White House caused. --->READ MORE HERE
Abbott: Amount of Fentanyl Caught at Border up Nearly 800% April over April:
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) stated that there has been a nearly “800% increase April over April” in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border apprehended by the Texas Department of Public Safety. And that there has been enough fentanyl obtained to kill everyone in New York.
Abbott said, “I’ve got to tell you, Steve, there’s something else, a new dynamic about what’s going on at the border that Americans need to know about, and that is the increased apprehension of fentanyl coming across the border. Yes, there may be people coming across the border. But there [are] dangerous drugs coming across the border. For your audience who may not know, two milligrams of fentanyl is a fatal dose. And so, know this, we had…[an] almost 800% increase April over April of the amount of fentanyl that has been apprehended by the Texas Department of Public Safety. We have obtained enough fentanyl coming across the border to kill every single person in the state of New York.” --->WATCH INTERVIEW HERE
Follow links below to related stories:

Biden's Open Border Is Fueling the 'Deadliest Drug Epidemic in U.S. History'

Texas Gov. Abbott: Border Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl To Kill Every New Yorker

Crisis: Border Patrol Arrests Convicted Criminals; Heroin and Fentanyl Trafficking Soars, Pakistanis Nabbed at the Border [UPDATE]

The Migrant Crisis Isn’t Just About Illegal Immigration, It’s Also About The Cartels That Run The Border

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