House Committee Testimony Highlights How Border Policy Failures Are Driving America’s Fentanyl Crisis

Poignant testimony delivered during a Feb. 28 congressional hearing on the U.S. border crisis brought legislators to a firm conclusion: Failed or ineffective immigration policies are directly fueling America’s drug crisis.
“Our country faces record fatalities from drug overdoses, eclipsing 100,000 deaths, 71,000 from synthetic opioids alone,” Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing.
At the forefront of this crisis is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s up to 100 times more potent than morphine. Most of the substance is making its way into the United States from Mexico, much of which is smuggled in by drug cartels….