A lot of fentanyl, enough to kill 50 million people, was seized by the Border Patrol in Southern California. That is 232 lbs. of the deadly drug worth more than $8 million. The arrest took place at a traffic stop in San Clemente, Orange County, 75 miles inland. It either slipped through the cracks or drug mules brought it in. In January Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw spearheaded using military force to deal with this.
Fentanyl is deadly
Raul Ortiz is the Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. He tweeted out, “San Diego Agents & local LEO partners arrested 3 and seized 232 lbs. of Fentanyl worth over $3 million. This amount of Fentanyl had the potential to kill over 50 million people. We continue to take the fight to the cartels and narcotics smugglers!”
Crenshaw spoke with Neil Cavuto. Crenshaw was asked what had him concerned. “Well, look, we recently introduced AUMF, an Authorized Use of Military Force against the cartels and any other organizations that traffic fentanyl specifically. So why now and why not years ago? These Mexican drug cartels have been around for a while. The difference now is fentanyl.”
San Diego Agents & local LEO partners arrested 3 and seized 232 lbs. of Fentanyl worth over $3 million. This amount of Fentanyl had the potential to kill over 50 million people. We continue to take the fight to the cartels and narcotics smugglers!
Incredible Work!@USBPChiefSDC pic.twitter.com/A4IXpNRnlR
— Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) February 28, 2023
Too many people killed
It’s a never-ending war on drugs. The Mexican government does very little to keep the problem down. “This is not a drug problem; this is not a war on drug problem; this is a poisoning problem. And they are killing about 80,000 Americans a year. And the Mexican government does very little to thwart this.”
If it’s a war, appropriate force should be used. This would help Biden.
“I think there should be bipartisan efforts in Congress to pass an Authorized Use of Military Force to deal with them. If anything, that simply gives our president more leverage when trying to get the Mexican government to do its job, its job on thwarting immigration, which the cartels also control, and thwarting fentanyl coming north across our border and killing American citizens.”
The cartels will fight government
Crenshaw described the cartel action,
“These people are a lot more like ISIS than they are the mafia. You recently saw a war in the state of Sinaloa after the Mexican government arrested El Chapo’s son. These cartels can actually battle close air-support; they’re battling government helicopters. This looks a lot like Mogadishu; it looks a lot more like Mogadishu that it does your typical organized crime battle, these people are well-equipped, they set up forward operating bases that are well-armed, right near our border, and they’re extremely dangerous. They’re some of the most capable, most well-funded, most dangerous organizations on the planet, and they’re right there.”
Any country can fail, that includes Mexico. Crenshaw concluded, “Mexico is at risk of becoming a failed state,” he noted. “We have to work together with their government to deal with this.”
