Posted on 02/12/2023 6:33:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said China is "intentionally poisoning" Americans by supplying Mexican cartels with the materials to make the deadly opiate fentanyl, which is then sold in the United States.
"The Chinese are selling these precursor chemicals into Mexico. Then the Mexican cartels are working on making the fentanyl and distributing it up into the United States," Ernst told CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge in an interview aired Friday.
When Herridge asked whether the flow of chemicals was occurring with approval from the Chinese Communist Party, Ernst responded: "I believe it is. I think that the Chinese are intentionally poisoning America."
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized 14,100 pounds of fentanyl at the southern border last fiscal year, according to official agency data. Drug Enforcement Administration head Anne Milgram has said, "Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered."
Every nine minutes, someone in the United States dies from fentanyl poisoning and just 2 milligrams of the drug can be fatal, according to the DEA.
Ernst said the United States should work with Mexican officials and educate the American public to fight the fentanyl epidemic.
"When we see an adversary like China poisoning our communities, it's a very disconcerting thing. We have to educate the American people. We have to work with Mexican counterparts to push back against the cartel and the Chinese. We can't continue to lose youth to this fentanyl epidemic," she said.
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And the Mexicans are concocting mixtures to bring into the US, and our government allows it.
China is now a problem because people in the Establishment have decided it is.
Trump was ahead of the curve now they have to all look like they are against China especially Biden with 2024 in mind.
Dadgum lady, where you been livin’........under a rock????
Sheesh
China may be behind the fentanyl but America has lots of volunteers to be poisoned.
And the Biden Crime Family and Dems were paid millions of dollars by the Chinese to allow that to happen.
If we only had a border...
That is rubbish.
America is being poisoned, all right - poisoned by a sick to the depths entertainment culture, by misguided libertarian foolishness, by extreme individualism and the failure to judge that it breeds, by a devil-take the hindmost economy fueled by usury, and at the root of it all by deep-seated hatred of Jesus Christ, the risen Lord.
Fentanyl flooding into the country has never made a single individual take fentanyl. Supply is not the issue (although I absolutely support death for suppliers), if you don't have a plan to stop demand, you don't have a plan at all.
This goes back multiple decades.
Whew doggies! Nothing gets past her!
How many DC lawyers/lobbyists are on cartel payrolls..
Wonder if she noticed the southern border is wide open?
Which is extra off because we Americans need a passport to go to Canada.
Revenge of the Han for the Opium Wars. Why does America have such a gigantic appetite for dope and booze? Every family seems to have at least one drunk or doper.
“ Trump was ahead of the curve now they have to all look like they are against China especially Biden with 2024 in mind.”
So the libs will now apologize to Trump for calling Trumps early 2020 Covid travel ban from China racist?
This is absurd. My dog already knew this years ago. What is being done about it?
No way.
The Democrats have to make noise about China while insisting they are not racist.
Latest chapter in The Opium Wars. That is a long-running saga.
So easy for PRCs to figure out what Americans like and want, no?
Gotta disagree.
The CCP makes the precursors, as noted. It is Mexico, that gov’mt that allows fentanyl production and additives.
Blaming the CCP on this issue is like blaming gun companies for making guns.
Does that mean we cannot ask/pressure the CCP to stop selling the precursors? Of course not. But, blaming them for the drug is wrong.
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