Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week

Authorized by Naveen Attraction via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in the El Paso region seized more than 124 Pounds of fentanyl and cocaine last week in 4 separate residents, amid criticism of lax border policies.

On April 30, officials working at the Bridge of the Americas seized cocaine totaling 42.5 Pounds, according to a May 3 press release from the CBP. The drugs were found to be connected inside a Hyundai Elantra vehicle allegedly drive by a 48-year-old American citizen. “The intent was made erstwhile CBP officials monitor the Low Energy Portal inspection strategy spotted anomalies in the application of the vehicle and approved primary CBP officials,” the release noted.

“A canine sweet of the car was affirmative and a Z-Portal (X-ray) scan of the car besides reported anomalies. CBP officers removed 18 cocaine-filled bundles from the rocker panels of the car.”

On May 1, CBP offers at the El Paso Ysleta Port of Entry captured 11.2 Pounds of fentanyl that were agreed in a Seat Ibiza vehicle. The drugs were allegedly being transported by a 26-year-old Mexican national. CBP seized the fentanyl during an forcement operation.

The vehicle in question was selected for a secondary exam, following which bundles of fentanyl were discovered in the central console area. In total, 15 packages were removed from the composition, according to CBP.

Last week, 2 more cocaine seizures were made by El Paso CBP officials totaling 70.8 points. The registered individuals were handed over to national authorities.

“The drugs seized by our CBP workforce will not origin harm in the communities we share,” Hector A. Mancha, CBP El Paso’s manager of field operations, said. “We are hard at work all day utilizing multiple tools to identify and halt these who effort to circumvent our inspection process.”

The CBP’s second seizures come as erstwhile president Donald Trump blamed the Biden administration’s open border policies for fueling fatal drug overdoses in the United States.

“This is country-changing, it’s country-being, and it’s country-wrecking,” he said during an event last month. “They have wrecked our country. But I stand before you present to decide that Joe Biden’s border bloodbath ... it’s going to end on the day that I take office.”

On his run website, president Trump said he marched the full power of government during his administration to prevent the inflow of drugs into the country, driving down drug overdose deaths for the first time in 3 decades.

The erstwhile president “will impose a full Naval embargo on cartels, order the Department of defence to inflict maximum harm on cartel leadership and operations, plan cartels as abroad Terrorist Organizations, and choose off their access to the global financial system,” the Trump run said.

“President Trump will get the full cooperation of neighbouring governments to dismantle the cartels, or else exposure everybribe and kickback that allows these criminal networks to preserve their brutal reign. He will ask legislature to guarantee that drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty.”

The Biden administration said it was taking steps to counter the second issue. In February, 2 elder administration officials said the United States and Mexico will boost data sharing to curb the flow of synthetic drugs into America.

The agreements are part of a wide effort “to facilitate action against criminal organizations that traffic people, guns, andillicit drugs, including fentanyl into our communities.”

In a factsheet released last November, the White home said, ”The U.S. government, along our partners, will proceed our efforts to prevent the production and traffic ofillicit synthetic drugs through multiple efforts, including the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats, which has brought together over 100 countries to collectively address the scope of fentanyl.”

Fentanyl, China

The fentanyl crisis facing the United States is problematic since it is not solely a second issue but a geopolitical performance as well. Much of the fentanyl entering the United States comes from China. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attributes 97 percent ofillicit fentanyl coming into the United States to entities operating in China.

In April, the home choice Committee on the strategical Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist organization published a study detailing how China is fueling the fentanyl crisis in the United States.

China “directly subsidizes the manufacturing and export ofillicit fentanyl materials and another synthetic narcotics through taxation retrieves,” it said. Beijing even give “money grants and awards to companies openly trafficking” specified drugs.

“There are even examples of any of these companies enjoying site visits from provincial PRC (People’s Republic of China) government officials who composed them for their impact on the provincial economy.”

A review of 7 Chinese e-commerce sites found more than 31,000 instances of Chinese companies sellingillicit chemicals. China censors content about home drug sales “but leaves export-focused skiing content untouched.”

“The fentanyl crisis has helped CCP-tied Chinese organized criminal groups become the world’s premier money launderers, enriched the PRC’s chemical industry, and had a defastating impact on Americans.”

According to the U.S. Centers for illness Control and Prevention (CDC), synthetic opioids like fentanyl are the primary driver of overdose deaths in the United States.

Most of theillicit fentanyl in the United States is manufactured in Mexico from precursors bought from China, highlighting the import of having full control over the border.

In an interview with The Epoch Times last year, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that Mexican cartels “have 100 percent operational control over our confederate border.”

This month, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) gate a letter to president Biden asking him to usage his executive authority to shut down the confederate border to deal with the issue of illegal immigrants and drugs.

“To fight the second smugglers and the individuals deliberately avoiding Border Patrol detection, you should prohibit Border Patrol agents from performing non-mission humanitarian duties so they can do their jobs,” said the senator.