The Biden administration has seized record amounts of a synthetic opioid at the U.S.-Mexico border and issued new executive orders targeting those trafficking the drugs. Still, Gov. Greg Abbott continues blasting the administration for not doing more.
A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers over the weekend at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona.
“I don’t know if the Biden administration even cares about it,” Abbott said in Weslaco near the Mexico border. “The president of the United States is doing nothing about it.” Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid originally developed to help cancer patients. It can be nearly 100 times more potent than morphine, which has led to abuse. Sellers often add fentanyl to heroin to make it more potent or hawk it as heroin to people who don’t know what they are buying.fentanyl deaths are soaring in Texas, and officials aren’t taking key steps to stop them
Biden is also touting the Border Patrol’s work in stopping the flow of illegal drugs coming through ports of entry.
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