4/27/19: On a typical day in America 128 people die from opioid overdoses. The spread of cheap heroin and powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl, referred to by law enforcement officials as “manufactured death,” contributes heavily to the carnage. Military veterans, who often suffer from pain related to wartime injuries, are twice as likely to overdose as those who have never served. The number of infants born with an opioid dependency has skyrocketed.
“Manufactured death.”
So, to stop the illegal drug traffic, do we need to build a giant border wall? Not according to the Council for Foreign Relations, which reports:
Most of the
heroin coming into the United States is cultivated on poppy farms in Mexico,
with eight cartels controlling production and operating distribution hubs in
major U.S. cities. Mexican cartels, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) has called the “greatest criminal drug threat to
the United States [emphasis added],” typically smuggle narcotics across the U.S. southwest border in passenger
vehicles or tractor trailers. Large quantities of heroin are also
produced in South American countries, particularly Colombia, and trafficked to the United States by air and
sea.
If you really want to cut the supply of opioids in this country, forget the wall. Go after the drug manufacturers and distributors, and their lobbyists who keep pushing more and more pills out to the streets. They’re making billions and leaving the nation awash in dangerous drugs.
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Drug smugglers dug this 590-foot long tunnel from a home in Mexico to a former KFC restaurant across the border in Arizona. |
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