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It’s The Border, Stupid!

A few days ago I devoted an entire piece to the disaster(s) that Fentanyl is causing in the U.S. After it was published, someone asked about whether or not there was a plan to combat this nationwide problem. As best I can tell, the answer is a resounding “No!”

Any plan would have to involve a series of stepwise small steps as this problem is not going to vanish on its own.

First off, obviously, in order to fight an enemy, that enemy has to be recognized. Hard as it is to believe, I have not heard one iota from our President that actually states that there is a fentanyl problem. If he is not aware that outside of the White House and the Delaware Beach there is a fentanyl problem, then perhaps someone can clue him in.

In California on 10/12/22, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released information on the fentanyl situation in the state and what the California Department of Justice is doing to fix the problem. While Rob Bonita did not mention the elephant in the room, he did acknowledge publicly that there is a fentanyl problem in California. 

The elephant in the room?? This leads me to the next step in combatting this fentanyl epidemic. Locally, here in California, as well as nationally someone has to come out and say the obvious … “it’s the border, stupid; the fentanyl problem is a direct byproduct of our open border policy.” 

Surprisingly, Bonita’s press release did not mention illegal immigration or the border crisis, although it is obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense, that all or at least the a vast majority of illegal fentanyl is coming into the U.S from across our southern border.

According to The San Diego Tribune, during the initial nine months of this fiscal year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection gathered more than 5,000 pounds of the drug at various locations and exercises in Imperial and San Diego counties, which is around 60% of the entire volume of the drug confiscated by border authorities across the country. The current thought is that the volume confiscated is dwarfed by the amount that gets through.

The second step in combatting the fentanyl crisis would be closing the border. President Biden and DHS Secretary Mayorkas are more concerned with the phantom whipping of migrants than with the fentanyl that is coming across the border (from Yahoo: DHS Secretary Mayorkas Was Informed ‘Whipping’ Incident Was Bogus Hours Before He Condemned Border Patrol Agents).

Since JB, VP Harris, and Mayorkas will not take the second step and admit that the porous border is a problem, any possible resolution will not be occurring in the foreseeable future.

May I suggest that if one has a family member or a friend die from fentanyl, he/she should send a personal note to President Biden thanking him for doing …

NOTHING!

10/18/22

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