90% of fentanyl seized by CBP was at legal U.S. border crossings

Ya…really…people entering the US legally. US citizens. An inconvenient fact.




Fentanyl seizures have been climbing across the border, especially in California and Arizona. Close to 90% of that fentanyl is seized at ports of entry. Immigration authorities say it is smuggled mostly by U.S. citizens, as well as other travelers who are legally authorized to cross. Virtually none is seized from migrants who are seeking asylum.

WOW now if Jo would secure the border the other 100% of illegal drugs not caught would be caught.
 
Not that surprising the most illegal drugs that are caught , are caught at checkpoints.

That's what checkpoints are for, to check the travelers.

People who cross elsewhere aren't checked, so they don't find the drugs.
Wait a minute. You mean asylum seekers don't show up to official checkpoints carrying illegal drugs?
 
I'm not talking those. I'm talking about those apprehended crossing the border.
I don't know what you are talking about, but the stat you posted was talking about ports of entry. That same article also said this -

MARK GREEN: The video cameras on the border show the cartel members in camouflage outfits, wearing backpacks full of fentanyl, pouring into our country.

CLAY HIGGINS: There's a tremendous amount of illicit fentanyl and meth crossing between the ports of entry.

ROSE: That's Representative Mark Green of Tennessee, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana. It's true that the Border Patrol does catch some fentanyl smuggled between the ports. Here's John Modlin, the chief of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, testifying at a congressional hearing in February.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

JOHN MODLIN: Last year, we seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl. That was encountered - 52% of that, so the majority of that - was encountered in the field. So that is predominantly being backpacked across the border.

ROSE: The Border Patrol in Tucson is on pace to surpass that total this year. But even so, that is just a small fraction of the 10,000 pounds that were seized in Nogales and other ports in Arizona. Still, Republicans say that there could be far more fentanyl hiding in the backpacks of smugglers that the Border Patrol is not catching because agents are distracted by dealing with migrants crossing the border. Some argue that's allowing smugglers to sneak more of their product across in the wide stretches of terrain between the ports.

JIM CHILTON: These mountains over here are in the ranch.

ROSE: Jim Chilton points to a line of jagged mountains between his house and the U.S.-Mexico border. Chilton is a rancher in southern Arizona, about an hour's drive northwest of Nogales. He will tell anyone who asks about smugglers using the trails through these mountains on his ranch. Chilton says video cameras have captured images of more than 3,000 people over the past two years.

CHILTON: Nobody's in street clothes. They are in camouflage clothing, camouflage backpacks and they're wearing carpet shoes.
 

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