Texas Enraged By Biden’s Impotence: ‘Mexican Cartels Basically Control Our Border Now’

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As the fentanyl crisis ravages, the country, Texas officials, and former border protection and drug enforcement officers are calling on the Biden administration to do something about it and secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

“If you look at the age group of people between 18 and 45 over the past year, the leading cause of death is not COVID. It’s not cancer. It’s not car wrecks. It’s not guns. The leading cause of death with that age group is fentanyl, and it is devastating,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated during a panel conversation hosted by The Heritage Foundation on Thursday. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts opened the occasion by worrying that’s not a Democrat or Republican politician problem, but a human concern.

“Sadly, the fact that more than 100,000 Americans lost their lives to a drug overdose between April 2020 and April 2021 is a grim reminder of the severity of the drug abuse epidemic in this country,” Roberts said. “The driving force behind most of those overdose deaths are synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, a drug chiefly created in clandestine laboratories run by Mexican cartels, who source their chemical precursors from China.”

In addition to Abbott, Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas; former acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief Uttam Dhillon; and former acting Customs and Border Defense Commissioner Mark Morgan signed on for the panel conversation to share their experiences fighting the drug epidemic.

‘Texas Isn’t Going to Sit Idly By’

Abbott said Texas has needed to take unmatched state action to protect its border in the absence of federal assistance from the Biden administration. Texas has increased the deployment of National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety officers, has seized more than 200 million doses of fentanyl, and has started building its own border wall, he stated.

“Texas is not going to sit idly by. We’re going to step up and do everything we possibly can for Texas to do the federal government’s job to secure the border,” Abbott said. “The situation has risen to such high profile that it’s time for all hands on deck. Texas will continue to step up … but we need all of America to step up.”

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He said that many victims of the drug epidemic are not addicts or opioid users, but young adults who take a pill or drug for the very first time and do not realize it’s laced with a small but lethal amount of fentanyl.

In addition to drug overdose deaths, the lack of federal action to protect the border causes gang violence, drug cartel control of the border, and human trafficking, Abbott stated.

He included that despite thousands of deaths,  “we have a president who is refusing to even talk about, to recognize it, to step up, and do anything about it.”

‘This Crisis Is Completely Man-made’

Babin blamed much of the drug problems facing the country on the Biden administration’s passion to open the border.

“America is treated like second-class citizens in favor of those who break our laws, who come here illegally and do an unbelievable amount of damage,” he said. “The most maddening thing is that this crisis is completely man-made. This danger is self-inflicted.”

Babin said that due to the fact that of the Biden administration’s weak border security, drugs are getting in the U.S. in historic quantities.

“I wish someone from the Biden administration could explain to me how enforcing our immigration laws and securing our borders is cruel or inhumane,” he said. “The inhumanity is that loving mothers and fathers all over this country will never hear their children’s voices again because they were unintentionally exposed to this deadly poison of fentanyl.”

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