Enough fentanyl to kill every American has been seized by Texas authorities since 2022 as the war at the southern border escalates between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration.
“Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies,” Abbott said as he presented a weekly progress report on his Operation Lone Star border security plan.
The comments come as the Justice Department sued Texas over the installation of a floating barrier across the Rio Grande River to keep migrants from illegally crossing. The Biden administration is also planning to take Texas to court over a barrier Abbott ordered at Eagle Pass, an area inundated with illegal border crossers. “Texas will see you in court, Mr. President,” he said.
“We allege that Texas has flouted federal law by installing a barrier in the Rio Grande without obtaining the required federal authorization,” Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said. “This floating barrier poses threats to navigation and public safety and presents humanitarian concerns. Additionally, the presence of the floating barrier has prompted diplomatic protests by Mexico and risks damaging U.S. foreign policy.”
According to the Lone Star State governor, Biden’s failure to secure the southern border has turned the Texas-Mexico boundary into the deadliest land crossing in the world. “Neither of us wants to see another death in the Rio Grande River,” Abbott said in a letter to Biden. “Yet your open-border policies encourage migrants to risk their lives by crossing illegally through water, instead of safely and legally at a port of entry. Nobody drowns on a bridge.”
With border agents distracted by the flood of migrants, drug smugglers have an easy time getting their contraband through. Operatives known as “Coyotes” work in concert with the smugglers to ferry both people and drugs across the border. They control the border, critics charge, and know where the agents are at any given time. Ingredients for fentanyl originate from China and are converted to the deadly drug in Mexico, where, members of Congress such as Matt Gaetz of Florida say, is part of a well-orchestrated plan to make money and kill Americans.
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Biden’s border policy provides asylum status to anyone entering the country. The nation is spending billions accommodating the millions of migrants taking the president up on his offer to come here with the only proviso being that they show up in court, mostly likely years later–if ever– to argue their asylum case. The policy has created an unmitigated crisis in cities across the country where the migrants are transported by border governors such as Abbott and any number of non-governmental agencies funded by the taxpayers.
In New York, the “Sanctuary City” declaration of Mayor Eric Adams is overwhelming homeless shelters and public services as Adams calls an extra $1 billion in his budget the “asylum seekers federal shortfall.” He’s suing counties and other municipalities for any effort to stop him from housing the migrants in their jurisdictions and has given adults a 60-day notice to leave the city’s shelters. He’s printed flyers notifying migrants that the city can no longer provide sanctuary as advertised, flyers that border agents are not distributing as per orders from Biden officials.
In the meantime, cartels are using the chaos at the border to continue pumping fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the U.S. in unprecedented amounts, with deaths and overdoses at epidemic levels. “If you truly care about human life, you must begin enforcing federal immigration laws,” Abbott said to Biden. “By doing so, you can help me stop migrants from wagering their lives in the waters of the Rio Grande River. You can also help me save Texans, and indeed all Americans, from deadly drugs like fentanyl, cartel violence, and the horrors of human trafficking.”
In April, Abbott announced the seizure of over 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl, about 14 pounds, during a single traffic stop conducted under Operation Lone Star, the largest single fentanyl seizure by Texas to date. "Fentanyl is the single greatest drug threat our state and country has ever known, and this record amount of fentanyl seized would have otherwise made its way into communities across Texas and the nation because of President Joe Biden's open border policies," Abbott said at the time.