The Department of Justice announced a number of criminal charges and sanctions related to the production and smuggling of illicit fentanyl into the United States.
Swanton Sector NBPC President Sean Walsh joined Fox & Friends First to discuss Mayorkas testimony before Congress as the crisis continues to spiral.
Fentanyl, which can be fatal even in small doses, has caused the deaths of over 70,000 Americans a year. It is often cut into other drugs or made into counterfeit pills, so users often do not realize what they are ingesting.The drug is primarily produced in Mexico by cartels using Chinese precursors and then shipped across the U.S. land border.
The charges also allege that they maintained a network of couriers, tunnels and stash houses through Mexico and the U.S. and secured hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by flooding the U.S. with fentanyl.
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