Immigration Watch International (2): Joe Biden’s Border Mess is Killing Americans

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Joe Biden’s Border Mess is Killing Americans

Joe Biden’s border mess has created myriad crises for the American people, none of which are worse than the fentanyl epidemic that is destroying so many of our fellow citizens.

Data released earlier this month found that 2021 was the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses, with more than 107,000 Americans dying of an overdose that year. The main driver of these tragic numbers is fentanyl, a drug that mostly flows through the southern border at the behest of drug cartels and kingpins. Of the 107,000 deaths from overdoses, over 70,000 involved fentanyl.

"These past three years we have seen an increase of contamination of other illicit drugs with fentanyl, be it cocaine, be methamphetamine, and more recently, illicit prescription drugs,” Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse said.

Most of these deaths could be better described as poisonings rather than drug overdoses. Many who die of fentanyl overdoses die because they are doing other drugs that happen to be laced with fentanyl. The tiny amount of fentanyl dosage required to kill someone is what makes this drug so dangerous and so lethal.

There are many reasons for America’s decades-long opioid crisis, including recent COVID-19 restrictions that forced many Americans into isolation. However, the main reason for the crisis is our abandoned border, through which most fentanyl flows. Bad actors in China and Mexico are now working together to move fentanyl into the U.S., with Chinese manufacturers and Mexican drug cartels having formed a closer relationship in recent years.

During Biden’s first year in office, Border Patrol reported a staggering 1,066 percent increase in the amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border. The agency seized 588 pounds of fentanyl in 2021, which would be enough to kill the entire U.S. population multiple times over, and that’s just the amount that was unable to escape detection.

One can only imagine the total amount of fentanyl that has come through our border undetected. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has imagined this, and issued a warning last month about a looming nationwide spike in fentanyl overdoses, saying that the drug is killing Americans at an “unprecedented rate.”

”Drug traffickers are driving addiction, and increasing their profits, by mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said. “Tragically, many overdose victims have no idea they are ingesting deadly fentanyl, until it’s too late."

The vast majority of drug overdoses occur among young and middle-aged Americans. Between 2010 and 2016, opioid-related deaths accounted for the loss of over half a million years of life in just the state of Ohio, according to a study from the Journal of Addiction Medicine. Now, we have the DEA telling the American people to expect those numbers to skyrocket. The scourge of fentanyl and other drugs coming from Mexico requires a whole-of-government effort to secure our border. Tragically, the Biden administration continues to take the opposite course.

Despite an injunction that is temporarily halting their efforts, the White House is determined to end the use of Title 42 to expel migrants at the border to prevent the further introduction of COVID-19 into the country, which will cause even more mass chaos at our border. Some estimates have found that as many as 18,000 illegal aliens will begin crossing the southern border every single day once the Title 42 order is lifted, meaning that Americans can anticipate as many as 500,000 illegal alien border crossings every month. This will force agents off the line in order to help manage and process migrants, which will create more openings for cartels to smuggle humans and drugs into the U.S.

Our immigration system is about to be completely overwhelmed, and drug cartels will be prepared to ruthlessly exploit that reality, which will exacerbate the opioid crisis, and lead to further death and despair.

Joe Biden’s border mismanagement is getting Americans killed, and younger and more economically vulnerable Americans are paying the heaviest price. If Biden gets serious about securing the border, he can end this carnage. Tragically, it appears he will continue to act as the fentanyl traffickers’ de facto partner at the border.

https://townhall.com/columnists/dalewilcox/2022/05/28/joe-bidens-border-mess-is-killing-americans-n2607913

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Joe Biden’s Border Mess is Killing Americans

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