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AG Merrick Garland claims fentanyl ‘unleashed on purpose’ in US by cartels
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AG Merrick Garland claims fentanyl ‘unleashed on purpose’ in US by cartels
Attorney General Merrick Garland told senators Wednesday that the fentanyl epidemic ravaging the US has been “unleashed on purpose” by Mexican drug cartels.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland told senators Wednesday that the fentanyl epidemic ravaging the US has been “unleashed on purpose by the Sinaloa and the new generation Jalisco cartels” — as lawmakers pressed him for a plan to stop the deadly drug.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) kicked off the hearing by telling Garland that ranking member Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had “basically challenged me — and I accept the challenge — to show as much concern about the gun deaths, show as much concern about fentanyl deaths in this country, and I want to do that.”
When Graham’s turn came to speak, he said that lawmakers needed to “up our game when it comes to fentanyl.” and asked why the Justice Department was not designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations or upping mandatory minimum sentences for knowing fentanyl dealers.
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“If we apply it to every single crime,” Garland said, “we will not be able to focus our resources on violent crime, significant drug trafficking, one the cartels, on the people who are killing people with fentanyl. So the purpose here is to focus the attention of our prosecutors and agents on the things that are damaging the American people in the largest possible respect.”
“At 108,000, roughly, Americans who died as a result of drug overdoses last year, 71,000, roughly, of fentanyl overdoses, do you consider your current policy successful?” Cornyn asked.
“We have a huge epidemic of fentanyl, created by intentional acts by the cartels,” Garland reiterated. “We are doing everything we can, within our resources, to fight that.”
Commentary:
Meanwhile, Biden and is cabal have done nothing to curb the flow of drugs entering the U.S. Our borders are open.
Garland attempts to blame it all on Mexico. Mexico is making this fentanyl. But they are getting their precursors' from China. Needless to say tat China produces the Fentanyl and Mexico distributes it to America.
Biden is to blame. Both our North and Southern border are wide-open. Even at our Northern border in 2022 they seized enough fentanyl to kill 3.17 million people.
Biden, his handlers and Garland are facilitating the drug trade by keeping the border open so it can be transported here without detection. Fentanyl is manufactured in China, flown to Mexico and then sold to the cartels who distribute it to their various factions and it is shipped to the U.S. in assorted forms.
Federal authorities have turned their backs when individuals are caught smuggling drugs.
The Narcos are well established in this country thanks to Maoist Democrat open borders policy and pandering to left wing Hispanic screamers who support spineless politicians.