Record-breaking Fentanyl Quantities were Smuggled into the U.S. Open Border was a success this year

Record breaking amounts fentanyl At the US-Mexico border In 2022, drug smugglers will traffick the deadly drugs drug Often packed with illegal immigrants Who are crossing over.

“A decade ago, we didn’t even know about fentanyl, and now it’s a national crisis,” The US Attorney for the Southern District of California, Randy GrossmanIn a statement. “The amount of fentanyl we are seizing at the border is staggering.” 

Fox News reports 60 percent of the 2022 fentanyl seizures occurred in Southern California ports, San Diego and Imperial counties.

This is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). announced last week In the United States, more than 379,000,000 lethal doses of the drug were seized by authorities in 2022. This is almost twice the amount that was seized in 2021.

Agent Gloria I. Chavez was the Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol Chief. This tweet was posted December 2, “Fentanyl Bust!!! Extremely proud of our USBP agents & @NuecesCoSo (Nueces County Sheriff’s Office) authorities who worked together, interdicted, & seized largest amount of liquid #fentanyl in the history of the USA from a traffic stop in Robstown, Texas.”

“A total of 25 pounds (three gallons) of fentanyl valued at $1.8M was located in a compartment within the gas tank. This lethal amount is enough to kill a population of 5.665 million people which is 2 1/2 times the size of Houston, Texas!” She continued.

Fox News reports Arizona border agents seized 1.5 million fentanyl drugs in one week.

Michael Humphries is the Nogales Port of Entry’s Port Director. He tweeted, “CBP officers stopped eight loads since Thursday totaling more than a million and half fentanyl pill.” Concealment methods were gas tank, quarter panel, rocker panels. floors, doors and body carriers. Pills were multi-colored or blue.