Posted on 08/23/2019 11:18:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
NEW YORK — Chinese drug traffickers had some advice for American buyers of fentanyl: Let us ship it to you by regular mail. It might be slower than FedEx or UPS, but the opioid is much more likely to reach its destination through the U.S. Postal Service.
These cyber drug dealers wrote their U.S.-based customers — in emails later uncovered by federal investigators — that private delivery companies electronically tracked packages, allowing the easy identification of mail from suspect addresses and creating a bright trail connecting sellers and buyers of illegal fentanyl.
The Postal Service for years did not institute similar safeguards — and that gaping hole in the nation’s borders has not been fully closed despite legislation compelling its elimination. Fifteen percent of all packages from China are still not electronically tracked, and the figure rises to 40 percent for all packages from around the world entering the United States.
“What do we not know about these packages that are coming in?” Frank Russo, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port director at John F. Kennedy International Airport, said in an interview.
“When you’re talking about a million packages a day,” he said, noting the amount of international mail arriving at JFK alone, “40 percent is a large number.”
On Wednesday, the Trump administration sanctioned three Chinese nationals accused of trafficking fentanyl, identifying two of them as “significant foreign narcotics traffickers.” Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker said the “Chinese kingpins” directly contributed to the nation’s opioid addiction crisis by shipping hundreds of packages of synthetic opioids to the United States.
“The most common distribution medium is via the U.S. Postal Service,” the Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the sanctions.
Trump weighed in on the issue Friday, tweeting that he was “ordering all carriers,”
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Meanwhile, the Obamas just bought a $15mil mansion in Martha’s Vineyard.
RE: Meanwhile, the Obamas just bought a $15mil mansion in Martha’s Vineyard.
How’s that related to Fentanyl?
SOME STATS:
Fentanyl — 50 times more potent than heroin — has fueled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. From 2013 through 2017, more than 67,000 people died of synthetic-opioid-related overdoses, the majority of them from fentanyl. In 2018, another 31,473 Americans died, according to the latest available figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Good thing Trump got pissed at China’s tariffs then.
so basically the WaComPost is saying the Trump administration is the first one to do something about this, without actually saying it...
Trump needs to use the Admin Bullhorn to make this known far and wide, daily. Expose the Chinese for the murdering scumbags they are and never let up on them.
The incompetence of our federal government is boundless. Plus our representatives just go along with it.
Considering what that stuff is said to be able to do to you he should be wearing full hazmat gear in case packaging was not inadequately cautious enough.
China had a long history of pay to play with the DNC.
I see nothing in the Constitution which empowers any branch of government to regulate what substances I can put in my body.
RE: I see nothing in the Constitution which empowers any branch of government to regulate what substances I can put in my body.
It depends on who pays for the eventual hospital bills. If the fentanyl addict does, then go have fun. If the tax payer has to foot the bill, it becomes the taxpayer’s representatives ( AKA government ) business.
Just as the Democratic Media Complex eviscerated President Trump when he said there was a crisis at the border only later to confirm such a fact, the DMC has once again had to eat crow and admit President Trump was correct.
Same could be applied to drivers, skydivers, or any voluntary activity not covered by the Bill Of Rights.
As long as you die when ingesting fentanyl no problem.
the incompetence of our govt is planned....
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