Texas Republican Congressman Brian Babin denounced that China and Mexican cartels have "declared war" on the United States with fentanyl trafficking at the border. In an interview with Just The News, Babin said that we are facing a "chemical war" that causes the death of hundreds of citizens every day.
A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report identified China as the main source of fentanyl trafficked into the United States. Together with Mexico (and gradually India), they are the main source countries for this potent drug.
According to the DEA report, China provides the fentanyl and the pathways for the drug, and the cartels smuggle it into the United States and other countries. Therefore, in declarations to Just The News, Congressman Brian Babin - who is also a dental surgeon - pointed out that this drug trafficking "is a chemical warfare against the United States and there should be some real accountability for those two entities," referring to the countries in which the drug is produced and distributed.
The number of Americans dying from Chinese fentanyl amounts to a commercial jet crashing every single day.
This is a crisis. China must be held accountable-and Republicans will act decisively if we are entrusted with a majority in the next Congress.
- Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) September 16, 2022
Fentanyl, a weapon of mass destruction
In recent weeks, the voices of alarm about the entry of fentanyl into the country have multiplied. A few days ago, a group of 18 prosecutors asked President Joe Biden to consider this drug as a weapon of mass destruction.
Prosecutors charged that fentanyl is claiming a record number of lives across the country and continues to flow freely across the southwest border. In July, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 2,100 pounds of the substance; it was enough to kill nearly 500 million Americans. "Due to the low cost of production, inherent lethality and vast availability of the substance, fentanyl would be an ideal choice for bad actors to use as a chemical weapon," noted this group of both Democratic and Republican prosecutors.
We must not sit idly by until a terrorist chooses to inflict harm using this substance on a large group of American; our countrymen are already dying from this poison.
So far there is no response from the Biden Administration, which continues to treat the fentanyl problem as a narcotics issue. However, its use goes much further. For example, the gas used by Russia to neutralize the assault on Moscow's Dubrovka theater in 2002 was a derivative of fentanyl. More than a hundred hostages died in just a few minutes. " We cannot wait for tragedy to strike when proactive steps can be taken now to preserve American lives. We urge you take immediate and decisive action and declare fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction," the prosecutors said in their letter to the president.
Multistate WMD Policy Letter_9.15.22_18 AGs by VozMedia on Scribd
Fentanyl is an opioid 100 times more potent than morphine.
