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View submission: America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
With a closed border we saw 67,000 overdose deaths. With Biden Harris open border we saw over 207,000 overdose deaths from Fentanyl. That is just 1 drug not including all the rest. Nor the child and human trafficking, SA and murder. You can make it about identity politics. It has nothing to do with race.
Comment by plinocmene at 27/11/2024 at 02:37 UTC
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It's a synthetic opioid. It's often made in America.
If you want less fentanyl overdoses we need to solve the reasons people want to do opiates in the first place. Poverty and disillusionment are rampant. The American dream feels out of reach for many.
Also violent crime by undocumented immigrants is less per capita than it is for citizens.
Comment by shrug_addict at 27/11/2024 at 01:56 UTC
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Isn't this happening globally though? Hard sell to pin it on just Mexican and Canadian nationals smuggling it into the United States due to "open borders", when *global* use of synthetic opioids have skyrocketed.
Comment by snark42 at 27/11/2024 at 02:38 UTC*
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After fentanyl cross contaminating tons of drugs for years and exponential growth in overdoses, we finally saw a slight decrease from 2022 -> 2023 and the largest increase from 2019 -> 2020.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/895945/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-us/
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2024/20240515.htm
Where did you get your 207,000? Was it summing 2021->2023 with the intent of blaming on Biden and the "open" border?
Most fentanyl is shipped on container ships from China directly to the US. We have so many imports it's damn near impossible to keep it from coming in that way.
Personally I think the solution is to regulate and legalize drugs so people know what they're getting rather than getting cocaine laced with fentanyl. It would also take a ton of money away from the drug cartels. I realize that's not the most popular opinion and it would have it's own different problems.
Comment by just_zen_wont_do at 27/11/2024 at 04:56 UTC
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I mean I know you people have Fox news brain disease so it’s pointless arguing with you, but I walk across that border 3-4 times a year. You need an american passport or visa to cross it. It’s not an “open border” whatever the fuck that means. They have checkpoints outside the city limits as well. If anything I’m surprised Mx hasn’t closed it down the border considering most of the guns come from US, and our lack of crackdown on drug dealing here here has here has powered cartels there.
Comment by Huge-Way886 at 27/11/2024 at 06:39 UTC
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SOURCE????