{"id":1779978,"date":"2022-12-19T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779978"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:33:39","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-the-end-of-title-42-will-increase-soaring-fentanyl-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-the-end-of-title-42-will-increase-soaring-fentanyl-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: The End of Title 42 Will Increase Soaring Fentanyl Deaths"},"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%2Fny-post-editorial-board-the-end-of-title-42-will-increase-soaring-fentanyl-deaths%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=1779978&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:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP22288768440354.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/13\/20-house-republicans-call-for-homeland-security-chief-mayorkas-to-be-impeached-over-border-crisis\/\">President Biden\u2019s border insanity isn\u2019t just killing migrants<\/a> and US law enforcement officers; it\u2019s killing kids and destroying families via the massive inflow of drugs the White House has invited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Title 42 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/12\/the-border-crisis-will-only-get-worse-after-title-42-ends\/\">a Trump-era rule and one of the few brakes on our current massive migrant inflows<\/a> \u2014 will expire this week. That\u2019s going to supercharge illegal migration, and with it the deadly movement of fentanyl over our southern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House silence on this issue is deafening. Last week, a group of Republican lawmakers sent a blistering letter to the president demanding a meeting on the fentanyl crisis. The letter, signed by Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Chip Roy (R-Texas) and others, highlights the appalling fact that Biden has been playing dumb on a previous request sent in October (doubtless to avoid bad press before the midterms) and that more than an estimated 7,500 Americans have died from fentanyl-related causes in the intervening weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nothing from Biden. But what else can you expect? Our president smiles vacantly and scoffs \u201cthere are more important things going on\u201d when asked by a reporter about the border nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Our open border <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/10\/cartels-exploiting-border-chaos-to-smuggle-fentanyl-into-us\/\">is an open invitation<\/a> to sophisticated, violent and vast Mexican cartels. For over a decade, these syndicates have been shifting their production and distribution efforts from cocaine and heroin to synthetic drugs: meth and fentanyl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those drugs are much easier to overdose on and far more addictive, and their flood into our country is clearly responsible for the brain-shattering increase in drug deaths. In 2007, the nation saw 27,000 ODs. Last year? 107,000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/nchs_press_releases\/2022\/202205.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per CDC data<\/a>. Of those, the agency estimates\u00a0around 71,000 were fentanyl-involved. <\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not only ODs these drugs are supercharging. As Sam Quinones \u2014 a journalist who\u2019s helped <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/12\/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-homelessness.html\">spearhead the investigation into our opioid epidemic<\/a> \u2014 has noted, the increasingly ultra-pure forms of both poisons are a huge driver of the homelessness epidemic in blue-state cities. The drugs are so potent, in other words, that users would rather live in the open as long as they can continue to get their fix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These terrible problems have engendered, within the cities they afflict, equally terrible solutions: <em>de facto<\/em> decriminalization, so-called \u201csafe\u201d injection sites and pseudo-treatment programs run by woke non-profits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, no and no. Arrest dealers, get users real help and clean up the streets (as Mayor Eric Adams is trying to do in New York).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But until real action is taken on the border, even the bravest mayors and governors are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/23\/new-yorks-drug-crisis-is-part-of-the-us-border-fiasco\/\">going to be fighting a rearguard action<\/a>. Biden needs to wake up to this crisis, before another 100,000 die.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s border insanity isn\u2019t just killing migrants and US law enforcement officers; it\u2019s killing kids and destroying families via the massive inflow of drugs the White House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3664,5458,4498,6616,10250,5476,4899,3819,8957,7689],"class_list":["post-1779978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-board","tag-bongino","tag-deaths","tag-editorial","tag-fentanyl","tag-increase","tag-post","tag-report","tag-soaring","tag-title"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779978","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=1779978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}