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Abbott: Amount of Fentanyl Caught at Border up Nearly 800% April over April
breitbart.com ^ | 5/14/2021 | Ian Hatchett

Posted on 05/15/2021 10:33:24 AM PDT by rktman

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.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; cartels; chaching; drugabuse; drugmules; fentanyl; illegals; texas; usebetterkeywords
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Ain't capitalism great? But, perhaps Gov Abbott could have been less specific about which state could be wiped out with the amount they've interdicted? Gov handsy andy will probably take offense. Maybe even have meathead crissy threaten Gov Abbott.
1 posted on 05/15/2021 10:33:24 AM PDT by rktman
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They can thank Biden at the funerals for all of the overdoses.


2 posted on 05/15/2021 10:36:08 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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Squirrel!!!


3 posted on 05/15/2021 10:36:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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Bill O’Reilly said a while ago the current mob loves Biden. Hias policies allow the border authorities to be totally overwhelmed with surges of illegals and unable to search for millions of dollars a week in illegal drug smuggling.


4 posted on 05/15/2021 10:36:32 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Abbott must go.


5 posted on 05/15/2021 10:36:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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Joe’s losing his 10% take on all these drug confiscations. No wonder he’s verbally abusing his aides.


6 posted on 05/15/2021 10:38:03 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Had a good friends son, 22, OD on fentanyl two weeks ago. The kid was even inside a fancy treatment center in Palm Springs, Ca. Guess he was hell bent on leaving this world. Theres a $10M negligence lawsuit in the works brought by his mother against the treatment center...


7 posted on 05/15/2021 10:42:06 AM PDT by know.your.why
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Ain't capitalism great? But, perhaps Gov Abbott could have been less specific about which state could be wiped out with the amount they've interdicted?

Its enough for a fatal dose to all Americans,all 50(57) states, DC and Puerto Rico.

8 posted on 05/15/2021 10:42:16 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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Fentanyl coming across the border.

“The spice must flow...”


9 posted on 05/15/2021 10:46:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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If attacking the gasoline pipeline is an act of war, then it dwarfs the the act of war of flooding our country with Fentanyl. Summary execution for those trafficking in Fentanyl should be de rigueur.

That's one lesson we can learn from the Iranians:



10 posted on 05/15/2021 10:55:55 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Working like Crazy to support the Lazy.)
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I wonder how much money is being paid to Hunter and his dad from the sale? And is it part of the gross or next amount?


11 posted on 05/15/2021 10:56:14 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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I wonder about the break down on those numbers ... let’s say April to Jan, and then Feb to April.


12 posted on 05/15/2021 10:57:31 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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I’ll repeat my mantra. This is all being done for the drug cartels.


13 posted on 05/15/2021 10:57:48 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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It is coming from China via Mexico.


14 posted on 05/15/2021 10:59:15 AM PDT by forgotten man
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Tragic. A few years back, a family member was on a patient-controlled fentanyl drip following surgery. Feeling pain? Push a button for a hit. They said, “Please disconnect me from this thing because if you don’t, I’ll become an addict.” The feeling they described was one of total serenity. On the drug, pain was gone and everything was right in the world. Total tranquility.

I have no sympathy for the libertarian position on narcotic abuse. The fact is that there are some drugs that are simply too dangerous to allow people to freely consume. There are too many negative externalities. The libertarian counter-argument is always, “Well, what about alcohol? People abuse that too. You gonna ban that again? It has even more negative externalities on a macro-basis.” I think the alcohol argument is weak because alcoholic beverages are (1) ingrained in the culture; (2) part of meals for many people; and (3) able to be enjoyed in moderation by a majority of users. Show me someone who can enjoy fentanyl in moderation.


15 posted on 05/15/2021 11:12:14 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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And the 800% increase is just what they CAUGHT. There must be a similar, or perhaps even higher, increase in what actually gets inside the US borders. Enforcement of the drug traffic is necessarily down, simply because the border agents are being overwhelmed by sheer numbers of illegal and “refugee” immigrants, taken away from their duties on the entry points to essentially be babysitters and escorts.

Green lights set up everywhere.


16 posted on 05/15/2021 11:20:51 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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"...enough fentanyl coming across the border to kill every single person in the state of New York."

George Floyed had a lethal dose in him - Floyed killed himself....

17 posted on 05/15/2021 11:32:11 AM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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To: Spok

“10% for the ‘Big Guy’”


18 posted on 05/15/2021 11:32:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Looks like Biden admin finally doing something to stop all the Fentanyl. About time.


19 posted on 05/15/2021 11:33:48 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Don Corleone

News media: see what a great job Biden is doing, Trump didn’t seize this much.


20 posted on 05/15/2021 11:34:26 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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