Posted on Aug 9, 2023
Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it's not the migrants
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/09/ [login to see] /fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-border-drugs
We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.
Just before midnight on Aug. 4, 2021, Haley tried to cross the border from Mexico back into Arizona, where she lived. She was carrying 1,000 fentanyl pills inside her body.
"That was the first time I've ever done it," Haley says. "It was just a sudden decision that I made at the last moment."
At the time, Haley was struggling with addiction to methamphetamine. She'd lost her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and then lost custody of her three children. (Haley, 32, asked not to use her last name in order to protect her children's privacy.)
When a man she knew offered her a chance to make $500, Haley took it.
We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.
Just before midnight on Aug. 4, 2021, Haley tried to cross the border from Mexico back into Arizona, where she lived. She was carrying 1,000 fentanyl pills inside her body.
"That was the first time I've ever done it," Haley says. "It was just a sudden decision that I made at the last moment."
At the time, Haley was struggling with addiction to methamphetamine. She'd lost her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and then lost custody of her three children. (Haley, 32, asked not to use her last name in order to protect her children's privacy.)
When a man she knew offered her a chance to make $500, Haley took it.
Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it's not the migrants
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Far too much money to be made in the illicit drug business to ever stop it. We have to find another way.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
Stan...agreed. Legal ports or illegal crossing...its like putting a cork in a dyke leake...pressure will find another way in. Don't know what the other way is but there has to be. Do it like we used to do to pirates in the 1700's...catch you with fentalyl or other illicts we hang you on the fence for others to see. Morbid and immoral but I think anything short of that isn't gonna be a deterrent.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth - Scott, the problem with your solution is it would only be the mules that get hung. The bosses would still be safe and continue to send other mules.
Drug abuse is a social problem. Providing those drugs is a criminal problem. As long as there is such a huge demand, there will be those taking advantage of that demand and making mega-$$$.
We must continue to interdict the shipments, but at the same time we must address the root causes.
Drug abuse is a social problem. Providing those drugs is a criminal problem. As long as there is such a huge demand, there will be those taking advantage of that demand and making mega-$$$.
We must continue to interdict the shipments, but at the same time we must address the root causes.
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Nobody Runs Forever. Clint Eastwood is #TheMule, in theaters December 14.http://www.facebook.com/TheMuleFilm/ http://twitter.com/TheMuleFilmhttp://www.insta...
This reminds me of the 2018 Clint Eastwood movie, "The Mule". It dramatized a true story of a decorated Korean War veteran who became a drug smuggler due to his failing flower business and family strain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_QksSzK7sI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_QksSzK7sI
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I think if yo uchecked with the DEA and the rank and file Border Patrol agents they would see it differently. Coming through a legal port is tracked and logged. ILLEGAL CROSSINGS AREN'T UNLESS THEY ARE CAPTURED and SEARCHED!
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