Post by the Scribe on Feb 4, 2024 12:24:55 GMT
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) clashed Dec. 11 with President Trump over border security, during a meeting in the Oval Office.
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comment from the Scribe aka ME
Trump and Republicans are almost wrong about everything. From the right wing Cato Institute think tank:
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.
Annual deaths from fentanyl nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 after the government banned most travel (and asylum).
It is monstrous that tens of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily every year from fentanyl. But banning asylum and limiting travel backfired. Reducing deaths requires figuring out the cause, not jumping to blame a group that is not responsible. Instead of attacking immigrants, policymakers should focus on effective solutions that help people at risk of a fentanyl overdose.
The U.S. government's terrorism watchlist has grown to include approximately 2 million people in the two decades since its creation and most are NOT terrorist by any stretch of the imagination. Most, 99.9% of terrorist acts in the US have been committed by right wing conserVative DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.
FACT IS TRUMP AND THE GOP ARE ALWAYS WRONG. TO SHUT DOWN THE BORDER WOULD CREATE CHAOS AND BILLIONS IN TRADE LOSSES, LOSS OF JOBS IN THE USA, RAISE PRICES, ETC. People don't understand how important all of our border crossings are to our economy.
www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers
www.axios.com/2023/12/14/terrorism-watchlist-two-million-people