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JimLur, Since profit margins from Fentanyl

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Word on the Street: Fentanyl

Jun 19, 2018 9:24:23 AM by Jody Lutz

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The New York Times recent article on drug smuggling .. https://mobile-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/politics/drug-smuggling-mail-order-opioids.amp.html .. adds to the topic, '“This is what makes the opioid crisis so unique and dangerous,” said Peter Vincent, who led ICE’s international operations during the Obama administration. “Traditionally, law enforcement has focused on large quantities of drugs like marijuana and cocaine. But very small amounts of opioids can bring tremendous profits.”'
https://www.affirmhealth.com/blog/word-on-the-street-fentanyl
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are much greater than profit margins to be made from dealing in other illicit drugs as heroin, add mail to the list of drug entry points. So you have international ports, and passenger cars, and tractor trailers through POEs, and international mail through POEs which, according to experts, are the chief avenues for drugs coming into the USA.

Course you, like Trump, do not accept expert opinion, and/or evidence, which is factually based.

See also:

To marry - from Mexico - Will Trump’s Wall Stop Drug Smuggling?
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Trump’s Falsehood-Laden Speech on Immigration
"Why Is Donald Trump Still So Horribly Witless About the World?"

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what trump said

“Nearly 100 percent of heroin in the United States enters through the southern border. Think of that, 100
percent almost of heroin comes in through the southern border, along with roughly 90 percent of cocaine
and the majority of meth and a substantial portion of the ultralethal fentanyl killing our youth.”

This requires context.

Mr. Trump is right that most heroin smuggled into the United States enters through the southwest border, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s latest National Drug Assessment report .. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-040-17_2017-NDTA.pdf .

Most fentanyl enters the United States from packages mailed directly from China, or through Canada from China, according to the report. Though “large volumes” of fentanyl are also smuggled through the southwest border, it tends to be less potent — and costs less — than the packages directly from China.

“We are miserably losing this fight to prevent fentanyl from entering our country and killing our citizens,” the president’s opioids commission reported last November .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Final_Report_Draft_11-1-2017.pdf . “We are losing this fight predominately through China.”

The drug agency also noted that the “most common method” of drug smuggling used by criminal organizations is by driving through official American ports of entry — not a migrant caravan of people on foot.

In some of those vehicles, the drugs are kept in concealed compartments; in others, they are mixed among legal goods on tractor-trailers. Smugglers also use tunnels, passenger trains and buses, drug mules and even drones and other aircraft.
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To secure certain areas a wall or barrier will be needed for sure.
We already have 700 miles of fencing and barriers.
What Border Agents Say They Want (It’s Not a Wall)
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The report was based on internal Customs and Border Protection documents from the 2017 fiscal year. It concluded that less than one half of 1 percent of the agents’ suggestions to secure the Southwest border mentioned the need for a wall.
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What Happened When A Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall
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3. Walls have little impact on drugs being brought in to the US. According to the DEA, almost all drugs come in through legal points of entry, hidden in secret containers and/or among legit goods in tractor-trailers. A wall will have little to no impact on the influx of drugs into our country.
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The Wall

"The LYIN' PRESIDENT said.."

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Why the wall wouldn’t stop smuggling

Why the DHS believes that a 30–foot tall wall cannot be scaled and a tunnel cannot be built deeper than six feet below ground is not clear.

Drug smugglers have been using tunnels to get drugs into the United States ever since Mexico’s most famous drug trafficker, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán of the Sinaloa Cartel, pioneered the method in 1989. And the sophistication of these tunnels has only grown over time. In April 2016, U.S. law enforcement officials discovered a drug tunnel that ran more than half a mile from Tijuana to San Diego and was equipped with ventilation vents, rails, and electricity. It is the longest such tunnel to be found so far, but one of 13 of great length and technological expertise discovered since 2006. Altogether, between 1990 and 2016, 224 tunnels have been unearthed at the U.S.–Mexico border.

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While President Trump accuses Mexico of exporting violent crime and drugs to the United States, many Mexican officials as well as people like Valeria, who are on the ground in the fight against the drug wars, complain of a tide of violence and corruption that flows in the opposite direction. Some 70 percent of the firearms seized in Mexico between 2009 and 2014 originated in the United States. Although amounting to over 73,000 guns, these seizures still likely represented only a fraction of the weapons smuggled from the United States. Moreover, billions of dollars per year are made in the illegal retail drug market in the United States and smuggled back to Mexico, where the cartels depend on this money for their basic operations. Sometimes, sophisticated money–laundering schemes, such as trade–based deals, are used; but large parts of the proceeds are smuggled as bulk cash hidden in secret compartments and among goods in the cars and trains daily crossing the border south to Mexico.

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Both the George W. Bush administration and the Obama administration recognized the joint responsibility for drug trafficking between the United States and Mexico, an attitude that allowed for unprecedented collaborative efforts to fight crime and secure borders. This collaboration allowed U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agents to operate in Mexico and help their Mexican counterparts in intelligence development, training, vetting, establishment of police procedures and protocols, and interdiction operations. The collaboration also led to Mexico being far more willing than it ever had been before to patrol both its northern border with the United States and its southern border with Central America, as part of the effort to help apprehend undocumented workers trying to cross into the United States
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