Fentanyl Fighters Prepare For Flood of Misery With Lifting Of Title 42
View Source | May 12, 2023 7:03 am
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has seen the highest daily totals ever recorded this week in anticipation of the end of Title 42, the pandemic-era law used to check the spread of COVID-19 by drastically limiting illegal immigrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. under Title 42, federal Border Patrol agents have been able to expel illegals more quickly.
- In 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration reported it seized more than 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder.
- A lot more has slipped through. And things may get a lot worse as more than 10,000 illegal immigrants a day — some of them serving the drug cartels — attempt to cross the U.S. border.
- “In Iowa, what we have experienced, because of this border crisis, is a spike in fentanyl overdose deaths from Iowans under 25, a spike up to 120%.,” U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), said in a statement Thursday. “These are Iowans who are losing their lives because of this border crisis and an uncontrolled border.”
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