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Fentanyl seizures skyrocket along U.S.-Mexico border
CBS News ^ | June 9, 2021 | BY JANET SHAMLIAN

Posted on 06/10/2021 4:02:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

El Paso, Texas — Along the U.S.-Mexico border, drug cartels are seizing an opportunity.

"We are seeing that the cartels are exploiting our current influx of unaccompanied children as well as our influx of single adults and they're bringing hard drugs," said U.S. Border Patrol agent Joel Freeland.

In a year, fentanyl seizures have jumped 800% in Texas, and the drugs coming across the southern border are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the U.S.

The toll can be counted in the skyrocketing number of deaths from overdoses. Among them was 20-year-old Jacob Del Hierro of Colorado.

"I wake up most days in a state of shock. I cannot believe that I lost a child," his father Chris Del Hierro said.

Del Hierro is among the more than 88,000 Americans who died from overdoses in the 12 months ending October 2020, up 19,000 from the same period the year before.

"It'll live with me for the rest of my life. My wife had to watch as I screamed and begged for my son to breathe," Chris Del Hierro said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; border; drugs; harris; illegalaliens; invasion
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1 posted on 06/10/2021 4:02:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought that the border crisis was over?


2 posted on 06/10/2021 4:11:43 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

I thought it wasn’t a crisis?


3 posted on 06/10/2021 4:13:33 AM PDT by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

China targeting the already useless indoctrinated woke youth of America


4 posted on 06/10/2021 4:15:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Inviting illegals and this will happen. It’s gonna get worse. Trump put a big dent in it.


5 posted on 06/10/2021 4:16:34 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: glimmerman70

Import 3rd world people...get 3rd world problems....


6 posted on 06/10/2021 4:19:39 AM PDT by Misitheus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s that....a picture of Hunter’s closet?


7 posted on 06/10/2021 4:20:18 AM PDT by Misitheus
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To: RC one

The fentanyl is not a crisis. Fentanyl tends to kill primarily white lower class men, you know, deplorables. As I said, for those in charge, what crisis?


8 posted on 06/10/2021 4:24:27 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hmmmm... In 2020 more than 88,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, as to compare to 19,379 from gunshot wounds..

In 2010 in the U.S., 19,392 people committed suicide with guns, compared with 11,078 who were killed by others. According to Matthew Miller, associate director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) at Harvard School of Public Health.

Well, it sure seems to me that democrats and their drug business's are killing a whole lot more people then the guns of freedom loving, God fearing, honest patriots in what use to be our nation..

9 posted on 06/10/2021 4:29:53 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cloward-Piven


10 posted on 06/10/2021 4:31:39 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: hardspunned

If you look at how toxic that stuff is, it qualifies as a WMD. A KG would be enough to kill 1 million large men with a thousand mcg dose. smaller people would require less to be lethal.


11 posted on 06/10/2021 4:33:04 AM PDT by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is China’s other virus that they inflicted on us and we are doing nothing. The Democrat party has no problem with it as long as they get the votes from the people bringing it in.


12 posted on 06/10/2021 4:44:04 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: ProudDeplorable

But, but Joe said that the border is closed? How can all this fentanyl get thru a closed border?


13 posted on 06/10/2021 4:48:45 AM PDT by princess leah (Princess Leah non vaccinated)
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To: RC one

Not a good idea to “inject” Fentanyl the way St. George Floyd did.

(Or in ANY manner).


14 posted on 06/10/2021 5:23:34 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: RC one

If China wanted to indiscriminately kill that many, it would crop dust populated areas with drones or dump a few hundred pounds into water supplies. As it is, appears to just be targeting undesirables that they don’t want to deal with—when they take over?


15 posted on 06/10/2021 5:27:51 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

About 10 years ago, my wife had surgery on her shoulder and neck. Post surgery the pain was even worse so she was admitted to a nursing home for physical therapy and pain management.

The doctor put a fentanyl patch on her. Day one, no change, day two, some pain lessening, day three a little more pain lessening but also a lot of signs of distrust and fear of people, except for me.

By day four, Paranoid Schizophrenia, she exhibited some distrust of even me. Everyone wanted to kill her and were scheming and plotting behind her back. Saw people hiding in her closet, refused to take any meds, (poison), couldn’t go to the bathroom alone.

One of my worst experiences in my life and cannot even imagine what hellacious horror it was for her.

Day five, around 4:00A.M. I (Doctor ME) took the patch off her shoulder. By supper time she was almost back to her condition pre nursing home entry.

The love of my life joined our Lord and Savior on Oct. 27,2018 of unrelated issues.


16 posted on 06/10/2021 5:28:09 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looks like the DNC plan to destroy America is working.


17 posted on 06/10/2021 6:08:07 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: MuttTheHoople
Cloward-Piven linked to a detailed explanation.
18 posted on 06/10/2021 6:18:27 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

But how hard would it be for a decently funded terrorist organization to get their hands on a few KGs? For that matter, the Cartels aren’t too far removed from a terrorist organization. I’m not real comfortable with these dirtbags having tons of this crap at their disposal. As far as China is concerned, they’re mostly just interested in eroding our society I think. They understand the deleterious effect that widespread opiate addiction has on a society. Read about the Opium Wars and the subsequent Chinese century of humiliation.


19 posted on 06/10/2021 6:21:00 AM PDT by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Cloward-Piven,
.
Overwhelm The System.
.
From the ashes
The Phoenix will Rise
or some such NONSENSE.


20 posted on 06/10/2021 6:28:00 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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