From October 2020 to April 2021, CBP revealed 6,494 lbs of fentanyl, one of the world's most dangerous drugs, as it defended the border, according to CBP data. The fentanyl that was caught represents an almost 2,000-lb rise from the previous year.
In 2020, CBP apprehended 4,776 lbs of the drug, which was likewise a dramatic improvement from the year before that, when authorities caught just 2,801 lbs of it.
The amount of the drug caught in 2021 represents an almost 300% jump from 2018, when 2,283 lbs of the drug was caught.
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The drug is a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin. More than 87,000 people in the United States died in 2020 from a drug overdose, the most in a year. Deaths involving these man-made opioids grew 60% in fiscal year 2021.
“Increasing fentanyl seizures are a reflection of effective law enforcement action as transnational criminal organizations traffic ever greater amounts of fentanyl into the United States," a Drug Enforcement Administration official beforehand explained. "Specifically, Mexican drug cartels have capitalized on the opioid epidemic and prescription drug misuse by flooding the United States with mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills."
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Fentanyl is often formulated in pill form, and it can be so powerful that one kilogram of fentanyl can carry 500,000 likely fatal doses.
“Fentanyl pills [are] more prevalent now. They tend to get it through whichever way possible they can," Las Cruces-Doña Ana County Metro Narcotics Task Force Commander Sgt. Eric Avilucea previously said. "They’re, you know, smuggling it through the port of entries.”
Since 2018, as CBP caught an uptick in fentanyl smuggling, the amount of marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamines seizures lowered.
The National Sheriffs’ Association poll and analysis showed that the public, particularly in border states, is, in any case, been sounding the alarm bell about the dangers of the administration’s open borders for some time now.
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“Americans believe that the crisis of migrants arriving through the southern border and into the United States is increasing the exploitation of transported women subjected to servitude, prostitution, and other forms of exploitation,” said Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Mark Dannels, chairman of the National Sheriffs’ Association Border Security Committee.
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“The crisis is increasing preventable deaths of many immigrants during transport due to causes such as drowning and dehydration, an increase in COVID cases in the United States, and a spike in drug trafficking because of the influx,” he added.
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