{"id":1573749,"date":"2022-07-27T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1573749"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:37:31","slug":"susan-collins-blasts-open-borders-biden-admin-for-fentanyl-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/susan-collins-blasts-open-borders-biden-admin-for-fentanyl-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Collins Blasts Open Borders Biden Admin For Fentanyl Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsusan-collins-blasts-open-borders-biden-admin-for-fentanyl-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1573749&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/maine\">Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)<\/a> blasted the Biden administration for failing to secure the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/southern-border\">southern border<\/a> while allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fentanyl\">fentanyl<\/a> to pour into the country, resulting in tens of thousands of overdose deaths in America.<\/p>\n<p>During a hearing titled, \u201cFighting Fentanyl: The Federal Response to a Growing Crisis,\u201d Collins proclaimed, \u201cWe have to face the very unpleasant truth that what we\u2019re doing is not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late December 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fentanyl-deaths-skyrocket-becoming-nations-leading-killer-for-adults-age-18-45\">announced<\/a> that fentanyl overdoses had become the number one cause of death for U.S. adults aged 18-45, as nearly 79,000 Americans died from the drug between 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Collins blamed the growing problem directly on the Biden administration not providing border patrol enough resources to crack down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been to the border with Mexico,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/psychiatry\/addictions\/99911?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2022-07-27&#038;eun=g2042099d0r&#038;utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_072722&#038;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">said<\/a> during the hearing.\u201dI\u2019ve talked with the Border Patrol officers out on their midnight shift, and they\u2019ve expressed such frustration that they have had to divert their resources to handling the tremendous influx of people crossing the border, rather than focusing on illicit drug interdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, Collins visited the southern border with a group of colleagues and said they heard members of drug cartels from across the river throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been truly extraordinary. It\u2019s midnight. We\u2019re on the banks of the Rio Grande and across the river, we can hear the sounds of cartel members, taunting us, yelling at us. They\u2019re exploiting vulnerable women and children,\u201d Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/news\/politics\/maine-sen-susan-collins-to-visit-us-mexico-border\/97-df60fc81-650c-4d52-a164-c9b42505cf21\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cThis system is inhumane. It\u2019s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Collins stated, \u201cSo I cannot help but conclude that our inability to secure the border has an adverse impact and contributes directly to our inability to stop the flow of drugs into this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins noted that the fentanyl crisis had particularly hit her state hard over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data overwhelmingly demonstrate [that], whether you look at national data, or data from the state of Maine,\u201d she stated.\u201dLast year, fentanyl was involved in 77% of deadly overdoses in Maine. That\u2019s a dramatic increase,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) also pleaded with the Biden administration to clamp down on the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to recognize that a policy at the border which has been feckless and ineffective \u2026 not just allows people to come here who are illegal immigrants \u2014 it allows drugs to come across as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to control that border. If there\u2019s a message I wish the administration to get, it\u2019s use your tools to control it,\u201d Cassidy added.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the fentanyl that flows through America\u2019s borders is from Mexican drug cartels, the federal government has previously stated. \u201cSinaloa and the New Generation Jalisco (C\u00e1rtel de Jalisco Nueva Generaci\u00f3n or CJNG) cartels are likely the primary trafficking groups responsible for smuggling fentanyl into the United States from Mexico,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-03\/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf\">according<\/a> to a January 2020 Drug Enforcement Agency report.<\/p>\n<p>Former Attorney General William Barr also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/newsmaxtv-billbarr-mexicancartels\/2022\/07\/22\/id\/1080025\/\">recently blasted<\/a> President Joe Biden and his administration because they have \u201cessentially abandoned the border\u201d to the drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Newsmax, Barr told Greta Van Susteren that the Biden administration\u2019s strategy against illicit international criminal organizations is not working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are effectively terrorist organizations,\u201d Barr claimed. \u201cThey are increasingly building their connections with terrorists. Their paramilitary can take on the Mexican military, and they have so much money they can corrupt any system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr added, \u201cThe United States [has been] relegated to working through Mexico to try to deal with the cartels, and I think that\u2019s a losing proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former attorney general declared that these nefarious actors should be treated \u201cmore like ISIS and less like the mafia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Biden administration\u2019s part, Kemp Chester, a senior advisor for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said on Tuesday that the government needs to expand its capability to stop drugs from new and unique access points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have to do is very quickly identify when we have new vulnerabilities, when the traffickers have changed the way that they do business, and close those gaps and vulnerabilities as quickly as we possibly can,\u201d Chester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/psychiatry\/addictions\/99911?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2022-07-27&#038;eun=g2042099d0r&#038;utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_072722&#038;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">said<\/a>. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what we\u2019re in the process of doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) blasted the Biden administration for failing to secure the southern border while allowing fentanyl to pour into the country, resulting in tens of thousands of overdose deaths in America. During a hearing titled, \u201cFighting Fentanyl: The Federal Response to a Growing Crisis,\u201d Collins proclaimed, \u201cWe have to face the very unpleasant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}