Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas
Posted on 02/16/2022 3:51:22 AM PST by Kaslin
Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas
Think you live too far from the Mexican border to be hurt by the chaos there?
Bloomfield is a picturesque village in central Connecticut, 3,500 miles from the Mexican border. But illegal drugs flowing across that border nearly killed a 16-year-old student at Bloomfield High School two weeks ago. He tried marijuana, not knowing it was laced with fentanyl. Police rushed to the school nurse's office and administered two doses of Narcan just in time to save him.
Responding to the surge in teen overdoses, Connecticut's Gov. Ned Lamont is asking, "How did this happen? How is there more fentanyl on the streets than ever before?" Look south, Governor.
Hidalgo County, Texas, Sheriff J.E. Guerra, who operates on the frontlines of the border war, explained that he's not worried drugs will impact his community. "The drugs go further north," he said.
Drug thugs cross the border disguised as needy migrants or even unaccompanied minors. Once across, they're provided bus and airplane tickets to destinations across the U.S. In some cases, charities -- largely taxpayer-funded -- pay for the tickets, and hand the border crossers cellphones and other items as they start their journeys north.
Other times, "Biden Air" flies migrants stealthily at night into places like Westchester County airport, close to the Connecticut border.
Once far north of the border, drug thugs are invading middle schools and high schools and killing our teens.
Last week's hearing before the Senate Finance Committee documented the soaring death rates among teens, especially Black teens. A 13-year-old student at the Sports and Medical Science Academy in Hartford, Connecticut, collapsed in the school gymnasium last month and died from a fentanyl overdose. Police found 40 bags of fentanyl in two classrooms, and another 100 bags in the boy's bedroom.
Bags of fentanyl in a public school classroom should evoke the same alarm as a school shooting or a bomb scare because that quantity could kill as many innocent students.
Not all young overdose victims are addicts. Fentanyl is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. When teens experiment with fentanyl-laced drugs, they're not just risking addiction; they're risking death on the first try. No second chance. Fentanyl kills so fast that by the time first responders arrive, more often than not, there's no pulse.
Many teen victims "probably don't have a substance use disorder, they're experimenting, making a bad choice, and they end up dead," explains Roneet Lev, an emergency room physician in San Diego.
A new federal report warns that even when the drug influx is stopped, the death toll will continue to soar.
Congress's response is a charade. Congress has directed Customs and Border Protection to adopt new technology and scan 100% of cars and trucks passing through the legal ports of entry. Right now, about 5% are scanned. True, more scanning will result in more seizures. But the cartels can shift more of their operation to crossing between the ports illegally. Democrats are resisting all efforts to close illegal entry.
Most migrants wading across the Rio Grande with backpacks and shopping bags are carrying necessities -- but some are trafficking. A backpack sniffed out by canines hid five pounds of fentanyl stuffed in breakfast burritos. Estimated street value: $60,000.
As long as Democrats insist on open borders, killer drugs and drug dealers will pour in.
What is the Biden administration's latest response? Allocating $30 million for drug kits to make drug consumption more sanitary. That's crazy.
Parents need to warn their kids that experimenting with drugs even once can kill them -- and they need to insist schools drill down on that message.
Connecticut, for example, requires drug abuse education in each grade, but there is little emphasis compared with woke issues such as racial equity and gender fluidity. Instead of asking kids about their preferred pronoun, tell them to just say no to drugs.
The current woke culture in schools is an engraved invitation for drug dealers ready to literally make a killing off our kids.
China.....
ANYONE who defends NOT defending the border should be tried and convicted of treason. And if found to be facilitating illegal entry in any way then make it a capital offense.
If we cant convict Hillary Obama and the plethora of criminals in government how can we be taken seriously
As long as Democrats insist on open borders, killer drugs and drug dealers will pour into our communities intent on getting our kids hooked on drugs.
Well dressed migrants wading across the Rio Grande with backpacks and shopping bags are traffickers.
A backpack can contain five pounds of fentanyl stuffed in burritos.
Estimated street value: $60,000.
Biden’s latest response?
Allocating $30 million tax dollars for drug kits crack pipes heroin needles........even tax financing public shoot-up centers.
Children and parents are getting an education on why one should not vote Democratic.
Bloomfield is a picturesque village... It is a nice picturesque city. A village, no..a minority majority city.
Nothing is wrong with Bloomfield. Love 5he town..
The border crisis has been in public schools ever since we started paying to educate illegal aliens.
Payback for The Opium Wars.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes; the 16 year old pot puffer was not worth saving.
The last several elections though he stopped voting though because I had to go with him to the voting booth and where to click on the voting machine, and that was a no-no.
I did vote one time in our local election for a dem. The guy who ran for councilman was a classmate of our daughter from the first grade to the 6th grade, and he was a friendly boy. r
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes; the 16 year old pot puffer was not worth saving.”
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Please tell me you are not serious with that comment. Are you really saying a 16 year old smoking what he thinks is a little marijuana deserves to die?
“...the soaring death rates among teens, especially Black teens?”
That’s why nothing will be done about it.
Excellent point..
And that arrogant SOB Alejandro Mayorkas should be arrested for complicity to murder..!
And MS13 narco terrorists will be chopping up your kids for the cameras to remind the neighborhood who is in charge and to pay your tributes to the gang.
I sure agree with that. I really don’t think Americans care enough anymore. The criminals are running things and we are paralyzed and afraid to commit to doing anything to save this sinking ship.
The answer to everything is “so”.
“...central Connecticut, 3,500 miles from the Mexican border.”
Maybe 2,000 miles.
Bloomfield = Little Jamaica near Hartford. It is not a typical New England town.
Look to your Resident in the WH stupid.
The war n drugs is over. We lost. Just like other wars, our politicians saw more profit from being on the supply side. They couldn’t care less about the citizens.
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