U.S. Border Patrol agents testifying before the Oversight Committee on Tuesday acknowledged that the amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border so far this year is enough to kill nearly five times the population of the U.S.
Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin noted that 700 pounds of fentanyl was seized in his area alone in 2022, which he noted was enough to kill half the population of the United States.
Committee member, GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee explained that the heart-stopping amounts of the synthetic opioid caused the overdose deaths of the hundreds of citizens in his Tennessee district last year alone.
Burchett recited Department of Homeland Security (DHS) figures that show 9,400 pounds of fentanyl were seized in the country so far this year.
'And approximately 76 percent, or 7,200 pounds of that was seized coming through our southwest border,' he added.
When asking Modlin and fellow witness Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Floria Chavez whether they knew how many people that could kill, they admitted they did not but admitted they were aware it was a high number.
'I'll do the math for you,' Burchett said. 'It's 1.6 billion people, with a 'b'.'
'That's enough fentanyl to kill every American almost five times over,' he noted.
'And the bottom line is this country was on its way, I felt, to a secure border under President Trump,' the lawmaker said. 'But President Biden put an end to that on his first day in office. I believe Americans are dying as a result.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11723747/Border-chiefs-Fentanyl-seized-border-kill-5-times-population.html
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
Border patrol chiefs acknowledge that enough fentanyl was seized at the border so far this year to kill the U.S. population FIVE TIMES over
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