Yep the GOP once again using the Fentanyl issue in america to target immigration and the southern border but as usual the facts don't support their suggestion.. but of course that hasn't stop their base from soaking it up like a sponge or Fox pushing their narrative none stop
Many politicians who want to end U.S. asylum law claim that immigrants crossing the border illegally are responsible.
An NPR‐Ipsos poll last week found that 39 percent of Americans and
60 percent of Republicans believe, “Most of the fentanyl entering the U.S. is smuggled in by unauthorized migrants crossing the border illegally.”
A more accurate summary is that fentanyl is overwhelmingly smuggled by U.S. citizens almost entirely for U.S. citizen consumers.
Here are facts:
Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
The government exacerbated the problem by banning most legal cross border traffic in 2020 and 2021, accelerating a switch to fentanyl (the easiest‐to‐conceal drug).
During the travel restrictions, fentanyl seizures at ports quadrupled from fiscal year 2019 to 2021. Fentanyl went from a third of combined heroin and fentanyl seizures to over 90 percent.
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-s...asylum-seekers
Clearly today's GOP know showing facts and telling the truth, do not get them votes! ASK Liz lies and more lies and reinforcing the bases prejudice that their being replaced by little brown men and women (whom they claim are swinging republican (must be just the legal ones ) only the illegals vote Democrat .. clearly produces better results.
Think about it. why would any republican of principle and integrity and ethics vote for JD Vance Kelly Lake Mark Finchem Mastriano Trump? All election deniers aka liers .. Yet all will receive tens of thousands of votes
The Actual Threat to America is not from the southern border its from with in . it isn't Republicanism its Trumpism
when a short time ago
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