Gov. Greg Abbott directed DPS on Wednesday to crack down on Mexican cartels transporting the opioid fentanyl into Texas. His focus on cartels to stop the drug crisis has received criticism, as a state agency that helps police obtain Narcan goes unfunded.
Greg Abbott
on Wednesday directed the Department of Public Safety to redouble its efforts combating Mexican drug cartels, which he blamed for transporting millions of doses of the opioid fentanyl into Texas. “Fentanyl is a clandestine killer, and Texans are falling victim to the Mexican cartels that are producing it,” Abbott said at a roundtable in Midland with DPS Director Steve McCraw and local law enforcement and political officials.
In a new executive order, Abbott directed the state police to, among other priorities, boost efforts to collect intelligence on cartels, investigate gangs in Texas that support drug and human smuggling, and seize goods the cartels are smuggling back to Mexico, including cash.Abbott also sent a letter to the heads of state agencies asking them to work harder on combating the “fentanyl crisis.
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