Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., recently called for the Mexican cartels, as well as their collaborators in China, to be held accountable for the continued fentanyl crisis.
“There’s not a day that goes by when Americans aren’t dying from fentanyl overdose,” Scott wrote in a June 7 Twitter post. “This is a public health crisis, and we must target the cartels and Chinese suppliers funneling this deadly drug into our country.”
Scott has taken on the fight against fentanyl with the introduction of a bill in the Senate in April called the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, according to a news release on his website. The bill is aimed at combating both the flow of supplies from China, as well as the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. via the cartels.
“This legislation takes decisive action to cut off the deadly flow of fentanyl at the source,” Scott said in the release on his website.
According to an interview from The Federal Newswire, Congressman Neal Dunn said fentanyl is “not a drug, it's a poison.” Dunn said government officials can no longer “just sit around and complain about” the fentanyl crisis, and that they have “got to do something new and different about fentanyl and the problem of overdosing.”
The New York Post recently reported a Border Patrol K-9 near Yuma, Ariz., found $2 million of fentanyl that was attempting to be smuggled into the U.S. The article stated the 192 pounds of fentanyl was enough to kill 48 million people.
As reported by the DC Examiner, from March 6 to May 8 this year, federal border agents seized more than 2,000 pounds of fentanyl, which is equivalent to more than a ton. This amount had the potential to result in the death of more than 450 million people. It was noted a lethal dose of fentanyl can be as small as two milligrams.
While Biden refuses to secure the border, America’s governors are stepping up to help Texas fill the gaps he created,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a June 11 Twitter post.
"We need to have an honest conversation about what’s happening at our southern border, even if President Biden won’t,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt wrote in a June 7 Twitter post.
Stitt is also sending troops to help "secure our border and keep our communities safe," his Twitter post reported.
