Cartels are 'killing Americans with fentanyl at rates never seen before': DEA administrator's dire assessment of the Biden border drug crisis

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrator Anne Milgram issued a dire warning Friday that cartels are 'killing Americans with fentanyl at rates never seen before.

'There are two cartels in Mexico the Sinoloa cartel and the El Jalisco cartel that are killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we have never seen before,' Milgram said.

Milgram said that cartels had become more aggressive than they'd been in years past.

'Those cartels are acting with calculated, deliberate treachery to get fentanyl to the United States and to get people to buy it - through fake pills, through other drugs, through any means.'

'The whole world of drugs has changed,' she added.  

In the past year there have been over 107,000 drug overdoses in the U.S., 70 percent of those tied to fentanyl.

In the first nine months of fiscal year 2022, border agents just in San Diego and Imperial counties seized over 5,000 pounds of fentanyl.

'Mexican cartels are increasingly manufacturing fentanyl for distribution and sale in the United States Precursors are imported from China and other countries and then pressed into pills, powder or mixed into other drugs at massive, industrial-scale labs,' the Department of Justice warned in a public statement on Aug. 12.

Meanwhile migrants have gotten more creative to evade arrest, as Border Patrol agents in New Mexico arrested three dressed in camouflage dried grass suits to blend in with the local terrain.

US Border Patrol Sector Chief Gloria Chavez credited the migrants for their 'ghillie suits,' as the outfit is called, saying in a tweet people use 'extraordinary tactics to evade and detect arrest.'

So far this fiscal year border agents at the southern border have apprehended migrants trying to pass illegally at least two million times

CBP sources told Fox News that the migrant encounters hit 2,001,034 this weekend, with the majority of the fourth quarter left to go. That figure does not include the number of gotaways who successfully evaded arrest.

It comes after the agency released figures for July that showed encounters reaching below 200,000 for the first month since February. It was also the second consecutive month that saw a decline in encounters following four months in a row of increases.

At this point in Fiscal Year 2021, encounter figures were at 1,277,177 – more than 700,000 less than the same point this year.

Meanwhile, buses full of migrants continue to offload at New York City's Port Authority on Wednesday as Texas Governor Greg Abbott goes forward with an initiative sending illegal immigrants out of his state to major U.S. cities.

So far, Abbott has sent at least 6,000 migrants to Washington, D.C. and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has sent at least 1,000 migrants out of his state by bus to the nation's capital.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser have decried Abbott's efforts, which were started in mid-April and led to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey launching the same program a month later bussing migrants from his state to the sanctuary cities.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11128259/Cartels-killing-Americans-fentanyl-rates-never-seen-DEA-administrator-says.html

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