https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...us-border-spike-4000

President Biden's border crisis has morphed into a drug crisis as Mexican cartels have taken over parts of the southern border. These criminal gangs are pumping record amounts of fentanyl across the border and contributing to a spike in drug overdose deaths.

According to NBC News, US Border Patrol agents seized 4000% more fentanyl this year than in 2018. Biden's relaxed immigration policies have allowed cartels and illegal aliens to overrun parts of the border. Agents have so far seized 41 pounds of fentanyl in 2021, compared with nine pounds in all of 2020, two pounds in 2019, and one pound in 2018.

NBC's data is primarily focused on seizures between land port of entries, such as in the open desert.

"For the first time, we're starting to see these tactics where fentanyl is being smuggled between ports of entry," Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez said. "Cartels are very creative. They find ways to intimidate migrants and find ways to illegally have them transport that narcotic into the United States."

Forty-one pounds doesn't seem like a lot of drugs, but keep in mind the powerful narcotic is 80-100 times stronger than morphine, and just one kilogram, or about 2.2 pounds, can potentially kill 500,000 people. Do the math, and the seizure so far this year is strong enough to kill approximately 9.3 million Americans.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents tell NBC that fentanyl has become the drug of choice for cartels to smuggle into the US because it's easy to transport and very profitable.

At land ports, fentanyl and meth seizures are also up 719% and 781%, respectively. Cartels are flooding the deadly drug at every possible opening on the southern border, and Biden's broken border policies make it possible.

A shocking 90,722 overdose deaths were reported in the US through November 2020. If the trajectory continues, overdoses this year could surpass last year's figures. The virus pandemic intensified the drug crisis (read: here & here) as millions of people lost their jobs and the economy plunged into a recession. Still, millions are without jobs and are spiraling down a deep hole of drugs and alcohol. On top of this all, Biden's failed border policies to undo former President Trump's strict border security had made the drug and immigration crisis many times worse.

Tragically, this dangerous situation playing out at the southern border was very predictable. Republicans may use Biden's failed border policies against Democrats for the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential elections.

This week, a billionaire Republican and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem were able to fund a future deployment of the state's National Guard to the border as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has frequently fought the Biden administration about their lousy job protecting Americans from cartels and illegal aliens.

I'm shocked!!!

My wife and I left a Bob Evans restaurant in an average part of town at lunchtime. In the parking lot was a young man on the curb collapsed into a nearly prone state. He was conscious but in lalaland. There were a group of 4 or 5 bystanders gawking. We just walked to our car at a brisk pace and wondered what in the hell the attraction is... yeah let me take something that causes me collapse and drool all over myself on the curb of a broiling hot parking lot.

Who would have ever guessed this would happen with open borders.

Could several pounds of this stuff be dumped into the water supply killing millions or would the water dilute it too much by the time it gets to your tap.

My bet?

Chinese fentanyl brought into Mexico by Nuevo Generation Cartel, then pumped into the US.

But what do I know.

Remember when Cruz and other republicans went to the border and they and law enforcement were openly taunted by cartel in Mexico? Basically saying as soon as you leave, we’ll be crossing with whatever we want to bring. That was in March. Imagine how much dope of all kinds has been trucked across a loose and porous border.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...-rio-grande-tour.amp

What could possibly be more important to the feds than protecting American lives from drugs and covid carriers gushing across the border? What could it possibly be?

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What could possibly be more important to the feds than protecting American lives from drugs and covid carriers gushing across the border? What could it possibly be?

Future Democratic voters.

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My bet?

Chinese fentanyl brought into Mexico by Nuevo Generation Cartel, then pumped into the US.

But what do I know

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Don't worry Kamala is on it!

Let them bring it in and give the addicts all they need to kill themselves. Even better if it's done under the Dem's watch.

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It is not that simple. Think of the crime and violence that goes along with it.

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It is not that simple. Think of the crime and violence that goes along with it.

Bingo! But of course the DemoRATS don't care about overdoses, crime, or violence!!!

This stuff presents more of a public threat than just as a recreational drug. I hope it starts getting more attention.

Dems care not on iota about violence, as it doesn’t happen in their gated communities.

Let 'em buy it over the counter at CVS. Undercut the cartels.

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It is not that simple. Think of the crime and violence that goes along with it.

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It is not that simple. Think of the crime and violence that goes along with it.

The crime and violence is already there. Let them take their medicine.

MSNBC Joy Reid says that the border crisis is nonexistent.

Fentanyl scares me enough that I always had a nasal narcan in my uniform pocket for self rescue purposes.

And that is only the shipments they catch, makes you wonder how much is getting in.

Isn't the standard assumption is that LE intercepts 10-20% of the total flow?

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And that is only the shipments they catch, makes you wonder how much is getting in.