Americans, Not Migrants, Are Smuggling Fentanyl Over Mexico’s Northern Border Michael Daly - The Daily Beast
go to original February 13, 2024

More Americans smuggle Fentanyl into U.S., politicians blame migrants (@25News)

In one 48-hour period last week, Customs and Border Patrol officers thwarted three separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the U.S. at the Paso Del Norte Border Crossing in Texas.

None were migrants, despite the narrative being peddled across MAGA world that immigrants bring the deadly drug with them as they pour across a supposedly open border.

All three - a 20-year-old who had 37 pounds stashed in a spare tire, a 45-year-old who had .29 pounds in her vagina, and a 26-year-old who had .16 pounds similarly concealed - were American citizens.

In fact, nearly 90 percent of those arrested for trafficking in fentanyl are Americans - roughly the same percentage of interceptions at legal crossing points such as Paso Del Norte. Virtually none of the asylum seekers detained at the border are found with the drug.

And yet right-wing figures from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) stridently seek to link migrants and the fentanyl epidemic.

Vance and Stefanik have even sought to use that fiction to perpetrate another. They both said that Trump was really speaking about fentanyl when he said in December that the migrants are “poisoning the blood of our nation.”

“He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country, which is objectively and obviously true to anybody who looks at the statistics about fentanyl overdoses,” Vance said.

“Our border crisis is poisoning Americans through fentanyl,” Stefanik said.

In truth, Americans are poisoning Americans.

Read the rest at The Daily Beast

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