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  8.  @rolandwoltman7835  In order to smuggle fentanyl through a port of entry, cartels hire primarily U.S. citizens, who are the least likely to attract heightened scrutiny when crossing into the United States. In 2018, 77% of all people sentenced on federal drug trafficking crimes were U.S. citizens. For example, five out of five drug busts over a single recent weekend at the El Paso port of entry involved a U.S. citizen. The government’s own statistics bear this out. 95% of all fentanyl seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Fiscal Year 2021 occurred at a port of entry or a Border Patrol vehicle checkpoint. And most of the Border Patrol seizures that occurred outside of the checkpoint context involved vehicle stops, often involving cars driven by U.S. citizens. For example, on August 24, the Tucson Sector Border Patrol stopped a car driving on a highway and found 187 pounds of fentanyl worth $4.3 million concealed in the vehicle. The drivers were U.S. citizens, who were likely trying to avoid a checkpoint. The fentanyl seized in this incident was seemingly the only fentanyl seized by Border Patrol that week. Meanwhile, just two days earlier, a single seizure at the Nogales port of entry stopped 104 pounds of powdered fentanyl and 1.27 million fentanyl pills. Similarly, when the American Immigration Council analyzed every press release from CBP that mentioned fentanyl over a six-month period, the data was even more clear; out of 89 seizure events that the agency touted, just 3 involved undocumented immigrants.
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