Posted on 06/10/2021 4:02:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
El Paso, Texas — Along the U.S.-Mexico border, drug cartels are seizing an opportunity.
"We are seeing that the cartels are exploiting our current influx of unaccompanied children as well as our influx of single adults and they're bringing hard drugs," said U.S. Border Patrol agent Joel Freeland.
In a year, fentanyl seizures have jumped 800% in Texas, and the drugs coming across the southern border are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the U.S.
The toll can be counted in the skyrocketing number of deaths from overdoses. Among them was 20-year-old Jacob Del Hierro of Colorado.
"I wake up most days in a state of shock. I cannot believe that I lost a child," his father Chris Del Hierro said.
Del Hierro is among the more than 88,000 Americans who died from overdoses in the 12 months ending October 2020, up 19,000 from the same period the year before.
"It'll live with me for the rest of my life. My wife had to watch as I screamed and begged for my son to breathe," Chris Del Hierro said.
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I wonder why?
This is China getting even for the Opium Wars of the last century
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