Sen. Ted Cruz Sends Dire Warning About Flow of Fentanyl Into U.S.

“We’ve had over 100,000 overdoses last year. That’s the highest rate of overdoses in the history of our nation,” says Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas. “Two-hundred-thirty-plus years of our nation’s history. We’ve never had that until last year. 70% of those were from Chinese fentanyl coming over the southern border, and it is profoundly dangerous. Drug overdoses have always been a problem as long as people have been using drugs but with fentanyl, it’s something qualitatively different, where… they’re not even overdoses, they’re more like poisonings.

“It can be one kid, one teenager, one 20-year-old at a party who someone hands them a pill and says ‘Hey, try a Xanax or a Percocet,’ or what have you and they take one pill, and it’s laced with fentanyl, and they drop dead.”