WH: Biden's Drug Control Strategy 'Includes Specific Border Strategies'
(CNSNews.com) - The human rush to the southwest border, which resumed in earnest when Joe Biden became president, includes gangs and drug traffickers, who are flooding American communities with poison in the form of fentanyl-laced opioids.
But according to a White House fact sheet released on Wednesday:
"The Biden-Harris Administration is focused on stopping drugs from entering our communities."
"The President’s National Drug Control Strategy includes specific border strategies that direct federal agencies to strengthen interdiction and law enforcement capabilities on our Nation’s borders, counter criminal networks, disrupt illicit finance efforts, target drug transportation routes and modalities, and otherwise aggressively reduce the trafficking of illicit drugs.
"The Strategy also directs agencies to work with partner governments in drug producing and transit countries to prevent illicit drugs from ever reaching our borders."
Despite its stated plan to "strengthen interdiction and law enforcement capabilities on our Nation’s borders," the Biden administration has done nothing to discourage illegal immigration, except to talk about "root causes." And Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed trying to process the unprecedented flow of foreigners entering the country illegally.
Since Joe Biden became president, Border Patrol agents have encountered 2,573,371 undocumented migrants, and those are just the ones they know about. How many others, including smugglers, have slipped through undetected? No one knows.
The cross-border drug trafficking is nothing new. But the midterm election is approaching, and record overdose deaths -- as well as the failure to control the southwest border -- are among the issues driving some Americans' discontent.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2020 Drug Threat Assessment, the most recent one available, Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) "continue to control lucrative smuggling corridors, primarily across the SWB (Southwest border), and maintain the greatest drug trafficking influence in the United States."
According to DEA, "Mexican TCOs export significant wholesale quantities of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana into the United States annually. The drugs are delivered to user markets in the United States through transportation routes and distribution cells that are managed or influenced by Mexican TCOs, and with the cooperation and participation of local street gangs."
Just this month, the DEA warned that "Fentanyl is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate," and it noted the increase in "fentanyl-related mass-overdose events," characterized as three or more overdoses occurring close in time and at the same location.
The White House National Drug Control Strategy for 2022 -- its "inaugural" strategy -- outlines what it calls a "comprehensive path forward to address addiction and the overdose epidemic."
According to the White House fact sheet:
“Today, President Biden sent his Administration’s inaugural National Drug Control Strategy to Congress at a time when drug overdoses have taken a heartbreaking toll, claiming 106,854 lives in the most recent 12-month period. The Strategy delivers on the call to action in President Biden’s Unity Agenda through a whole-of-government approach to beat the overdose epidemic.
“The Strategy focuses on two critical drivers of the epidemic: untreated addiction and drug trafficking. It instructs federal agencies to prioritize actions that will save lives, get people the care they need, go after drug traffickers’ profits, and make better use of data to guide all these efforts.”
The "specific border strategies" and "going after drug trafficking" include "improving information- and intelligence-sharing and reducing the supply of illicit substances through international engagement."
Other recommendations include boosting "harm reduction" by meeting "people where they are" to "engage them in care and services."
The plan recommends expanding interventions such as naloxone; ensuring those at highest risk of overdose can get "evidence-based" treatment; expanding efforts to prevent drug abuse among children; and supporting community-led coalitions that use "evidence-based prevention strategies across the country."
Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, said his state is "desperate for help" to combat illegal immigration but the federal government "refuses to give it" help. He added that President Joe Biden and his administration, by ignoring the law and effectively encouraging illegal immigration, are "basically in business with the [drug] cartels," who are smuggling thousands of illegals into the United States.
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Inflation has reached 40-year highs and is reportedly costing Americans an extra $433 per month. The invasion of the southern border remains ongoing. Fentanyl overdoses have increased. Gas prices have soared to record highs. Weekly wages have shrunk. Supply chains have broken. And the deadly Afghan withdrawal has deeply embarrassed the nation.
Fentanyl Deaths in American Border Communities Skyrocket by 800%
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Fentanyl deaths in American communities 115 miles north of the United States-Mexico border have skyrocketed by 800 percent in recent years, officials reveal.
In Riverside County, fixed between Los Angeles and San Diego, the fentanyl crisis has surged to levels that residents never imagined. Here sits the town of Temecula, with a population of less than 115,000, known for its old-world downtown area and wine country.
These days, Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin says the area is fighting a danger pouring over the border unlike anything residents have seen — fentanyl.
In the last five years, Hestrin says the number of fentanyl-related deaths has increased by more than 800 percent. Though official figures are not in for 2021, the fentanyl death toll is expected to exceed the prior year’s record-breaking total.
Hestrin said residents are often unknowingly ingesting so much fentanyl that they have to be revived with multiple doses of the anecdote known as Narcan. In one recent case, Hestrin said, a woman had to be given 13 doses of Narcan to bring her back to life after having overdosed on fentanyl.
The region’s fentanyl death rate has prompted Hestrin to go after drug dealers, charging them with manslaughter when their clients ultimately die from taking fentanyl. In Orange County, California — which neighbors Riverside County — the case of 14-year-old Alexander Hastings Neville swept national headlines after the young teen died from taking a pill laced with fentanyl.
“We must take a war-like footing against those killing Americans,” Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) said this week during a meeting in Temecula. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) suggested a similar plan of action that would criminally charge every individual in the chain of fentanyl distribution with murder when an American dies.
“A finger of fentanyl on your lips, you die, and if someone gives you mouth-to-mouth, they also die,” Issa said.
While California officials said their Democrat-controlled legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) are uninterested in helping communities like Riverside County fight fentanyl dealers, federal prosecutors have made headway in recent months.
In February, federal prosecutors in San Diego successfully scored a 25-year prison sentence against 31-year-old Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield for having sold U.S. Army veteran Brendan James Gallagher a fatal dose of fentanyl that resulted in the man’s death.
The sentence is the longest that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California has ever recorded for the crime of distributing fentanyl resulting in death.
Nationally, more than 100,000 Americans are dying every year from drug overdoses, including tiny doses of fentanyl. Put another way, the U.S. is losing a population the size of South Bend, Indiana, every year from drugs primarily coming across the border.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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