Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers

[The Psychic Observer 498]

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

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.

[seafoam1 3,023]

7 minutes ago, The Psychic Observer said:

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

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 Psychic Observer 498]

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192557904/part-1-investigating-how-illicit-fentanyl-is-actually-getting-into-the-u-s

Most of the illicit fentanyl coming across the U.S.-Mexico border is smuggled through official ports of entry, according to immigration authorities. But not everyone believes that's the full story.

[The Psychic Observer 498]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-seized-enough-fentanyl-kill-entire-us-population-this-fiscal-year

While significantly more is caught at ports of entry – with over 22,000 lbs caught at the ports of entry at the southern border this fiscal year -- the stat highlights the danger of fentanyl moving between the ports and potentially past overwhelmed agents in the field.

[The Psychic Observer 498]

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/the-truth-about-fentanyl-trafficking

In February 2023, a 37-year-old woman was caught smuggling $1 million worth of fentanyl and meth across the US-Mexico border into California in the fuel tank of her 2016 pickup truck.1 She wasn’t an undocumented immigrant trying to sneak across the border. She was a US citizen entering through the Andrade Port of Entry. And this is the rule, not the exception.

[The Psychic Observer 498]

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2022/10/29/fentanyl-mostly-seized-at-us-ports-of-entry-and-smuggled-by-citizens/10615480002/

The majority of fentanyl, however, is smuggled mostly by U.S. citizens through legal ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. 

“The misconception is that everything's coming in through the desert,” said Guadalupe Ramirez, the director for CBP's Office of Field Operations in Arizona, who oversees the operation and enforcement for all of the state’s ports of entry.  

[seafoam1 3,023]

[The Psychic Observer 498]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article278619524.html

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection data evidences that more than 90% of the fentanyl that is brought into this country is trafficked through the ports of entry, which is why we have surged operations to those ports of entry to increase the interdiction of fentanyl that is causing so much death and destruction in our country,” Mayorkas told the House Judiciary Committee last month in an open hearing.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article278619524.html#storylink=cpy

[Hardcore troubadour 15,429]

How are all these drugs getting through a secured border? 

[The Psychic Observer 498]

2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

How are all these drugs getting through a secured border? 

Hidden in vehicles, dum dum

[seafoam1 3,023]

Feed America fentanyl message coming from and sourced by foreign countries so let's keep the borders open says creepy joe biden. Let's get some liberal white looking guys to carry it over.

And this pimpledoosh guy is like....."White guy's fault!!!!! "

[HellToupee 1,775]

Must be a slow night on discord 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,429]

12 minutes ago, The Psychic Observer said:

Hidden in vehicles, dum dum

I guess it’s not very secured then. I wonder why? Lack of agents because they are playing nursemaid for the illegals Biden has lured in? Dumbass. 

[weepaws 3,191]

The government gets paid, they don’t care about the citizens of this country, it’s been that way for a very long time, red team, and blue team = evil team.  Which side of the evilness are you on.  I pick Jesus Christ, and you? 

If the government keeps making money crap will keep entering in.  

[The Psychic Observer 498]

25 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I guess it’s not very secured then. I wonder why? Lack of agents because they are playing nursemaid for the illegals Biden has lured in? Dumbass. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/16/fact-check-mike-pence-donald-trump-drugs-crossing-southern-border-wall/2591279002/

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics, 90 percent of heroin seized along the border, 88 percent of cocaine, 87 percent of methamphetamine, and 80 percent of fentanyl in the first 11 months of the 2018 fiscal year was caught trying to be smuggled in at legal crossing points.

Trump was president in 2018, chump.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,429]

3 minutes ago, The Psychic Observer said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/16/fact-check-mike-pence-donald-trump-drugs-crossing-southern-border-wall/2591279002/

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics, 90 percent of heroin seized along the border, 88 percent of cocaine, 87 percent of methamphetamine, and 80 percent of fentanyl in the first 11 months of the 2018 fiscal year was caught trying to be smuggled in at legal crossing points.

Trump was president in 2018, chump.

Oh. Don’t worry about it now then.  Biden is off the hook. Except the overdose deaths are way up since then.  And that’s with the introduction of Narcan. But Trump! 

[seafoam1 3,023]

1 hour ago, The Psychic Observer said:

Hidden in vehicles, dum dum

So is your whole family this stupid or are you the blacksheep?

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.

I'm confused, what's your point?

Illegal immigration is good??? 

[League Champion 1,911]

8 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

And this is the rule, not the exception

 

Her parents may disagree with Biden's illegal immigration party.

 

 

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[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

crossing illegally

 

 

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

And this is the rule, not the exception

 

 

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

U.S. Customs and Borde

 

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

caught smuggling

 

 

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

crossing illegally

 

 

[League Champion 1,911]

 

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

smugglers

 

 

[League Champion 1,911]

9 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

dum dum

 

 

[League Champion 1,911]

10 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

90 percent

 

 

[BuckSwope 654]

What are you trying to do with your barrage of X posts, LC?    Many of them are in line with what the OP was saying anyway - there are some examples caught at ports, some are not big shipments, and some don't even mention Fentanyl.   It's sort of funny watching people talk past each other just because they don't want to agree with each other on anything.  

[League Champion 1,911]

1 minute ago, BuckSwope said:

What are you trying to do with your barrage of X posts, LC?

It's a novel concept. Open borders bad. 

Let's preach it till Biden does something about it. You should to, for the good of your Kids, not your Political Party. 

You won't though. 

[MDC 7,423]

Makes sense. 

[BuckSwope 654]

9 minutes ago, League Champion said:

It's a novel concept. Open borders bad. 

Let's preach it till Biden does something about it. You should to, for the good of your Kids, not your Political Party. 

You won't though. 

You are right, I won't spend time looking up 100s of examples on X of things that often don't pertain to the point at hand.    

Just funny when the opposite tactics are used on a topic like guns.   One side mostly looks at the big picture, the overall deaths, etc.. and the other fires off examples of daily shootings.    Here the opposite is true.   Hmm, I wonder why that is.  

[MDC 7,423]

20 minutes ago, BuckSwope said:

What are you trying to do with your barrage of X posts, LC?    

Desperate cry for attention.

[League Champion 1,911]

1 minute ago, BuckSwope said:

One side mostly looks at the big picture, 

Yes! This is the most important issue right now. We are being invaded, 5000+ illegal crossings a day is an invasion. As a Country this should never of happened and needs to be stopped. 

You voted for this, that's why you couldn't care less. 

[League Champion 1,911]

2 minutes ago, MDC said:

Desperate cry for attention.

Pedo says what? 

[Ron_Artest 1,520]

20 minutes ago, League Champion said:

It's a novel concept. Open borders bad. 

Let's preach it till Biden does something about it. You should to, for the good of your Kids, not your Political Party. 

You won't though. 

You want Biden to close all legal points of entry my friend?

[League Champion 1,911]

1 minute ago, Ron_Artest said:

You want Biden to close all legal points of entry my friend?

Are you saying there's not a problem, nothing to see here?? Typical Liberal

No assswipe, stop illegal crossings. 

But close it all off until it's under control if that's what it takes. 

[BuckSwope 654]

40 minutes ago, League Champion said:

Yes! This is the most important issue right now. We are being invaded, 5000+ illegal crossings a day is an invasion. As a Country this should never of happened and needs to be stopped. 

You voted for this, that's why you couldn't care less. 

How I know someone spends waaay too much time on social media.   Along with the above indication that if I cared about my kids, I'd do what exactly, I'm not sure.  Only R voters care about their kids now, I guess.