{"id":1616690,"date":"2022-08-19T13:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616690"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:42:57","slug":"catastrophic-dea-administrator-says-mexican-cartels-are-killing-americans-with-fentanyl-at-record-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catastrophic-dea-administrator-says-mexican-cartels-are-killing-americans-with-fentanyl-at-record-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Catastrophic\u2019: DEA Administrator Says Mexican Cartels Are Killing Americans With Fentanyl At \u2018Record Rates\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcatastrophic-dea-administrator-says-mexican-cartels-are-killing-americans-with-fentanyl-at-record-rates%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=1616690&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DCNF-DEA-Fentalyl-Record-Featured.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said Friday two Mexican cartels were killing Americans at \u201ccatastrophic and record rates\u201d with fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we see happening at DEA is essentially that there are two cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, that are killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we have never seen before,\u201d DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said. \u201cAnd those cartels are acting with calculated deliberate treachery to get fentanyl to the United States and to get people to buy it through fake pills, by hiding it in other drugs, any means that they can take in order to drive addiction and to make money.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/11\/us-citizen-alleged-smuggling-fentanyl-ysleta\/\">(RELATED: American Teen Allegedly Caught At The Border With Enough Fentanyl To Kill Millions)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 108,000 Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/fentanyl-overdose-drugs-deaths-record-mexico-china-border\/\">died<\/a> from drug overdoses in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">according<\/a> to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>CBS co-host Tony Dokoupil noted that the nature of drug dealing had changed, where dealers once sought to \u201cwanted to keep a person addicted, keep them paying money, but not kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole world of drugs has changed,\u201d Milgram said. \u201cFirst of all, the fentanyl that we see is synthetic, it\u2019s manmade. It\u2019s important to know that there\u2019s an unlimited amount that these two cartels can make. All they need are precursor chemicals that they are buying from China, from these Chinese chemical companies, bringing them to Mexico and synthesizing massive quantities. That\u2019s important to understand. The second piece, used to be that drug deals were hand to hand, in back alleys or connected to a specific dealer that would meet someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milgram explained that many drug deals were set up on social media apps like <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/22\/teenagers-human-smuggling-southern-border-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapchat<\/a>, and often buyers would seek drugs like Adderall or Percocet. She also said the DEA was acting to address the threat posed by the cartels\u2019 fentanyl smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican cartels have also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/21\/border-cartels-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recruited<\/a> teenagers through gaming, reaching out to them through WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we are actively investigating every single possible lead we can take and we are looking very much at what we can do in this space,\u201d Milgram said. \u201cOur top priority is to defeat the two cartels because to be really clear there\u2019s an unlimited amount of drugs that they can make. We have to stop it before it comes from China to Mexico to the U.S. The second piece is that, yes, we have to be aggressive on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will tell you that the men and women of the DEA are extraordinary,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re out every single day around the world in countless operations, our agents are in harm\u2019s way. We take loaded guns off the street virtually every single day across America and across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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