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   Leroy N. Soetoro to All   
   Drug Crisis That Kills 75,000 Americans    
   24 Jan 25 23:27:03   
   
   XPost: alt.drugs.fentanyl, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, sac.politics   
   From: democrat-insurrection@mail.house.gov   
      
   It’s not so much the people flooding across the southern border affecting   
   Arizonans, as what some of the illegal immigrants carry with them.   
      
   Illegal aliens don’t stay in the state, according to Pinal County,   
   Arizona, Sheriff Mark Lamb. Instead, they travel to “California,   
   Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, Iowa, Alabama,” he says, adding, “But   
   what we are feeling is, just like every state and every American family,   
   we’re feeling the effects of fentanyl.”   
      
   Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages   
   of 18 and 45, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.   
      
   “I don’t want to take away from 9/11, but I want to put it into   
   perspective,” Lamb says. “On 9/11 we lost, I think, about 3,600 American   
   lives that day … and we went to war for 20 years for that.”   
      
   An estimated 74,702 people died from fentanyl poisoning in America in   
   2023, a slight decline from the 76,226 fentanyl-related deaths in 2022,   
   according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   
      
   “Right now, China is putting fentanyl in the hands of the [Mexican drug]   
   cartels,” Lamb explained.   
      
   Many of the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl originate in China.   
   On Oct. 24, the Justice Department announced “charges against eight China-   
   based companies and eight individuals we allege are responsible for   
   trafficking precursor chemicals that cartels use to manufacture lethal   
   fentanyl,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.   
      
   China and the cartels “are managing to kill 100,000 American civilians a   
   year, and our government doesn’t talk about it,” Lamb said. “They don’t   
   talk about it in their politics. … I don’t hear [Vice President] Kamala   
   Harris talking about it.”   
      
   Lamb argues that the fentanyl crisis should be discussed more in the news   
   and during the 2024 presidential election, but isn’t because “to talk   
   about it would mean you’d have to accept responsibility [for] it, and to   
   accept the responsibility would cost you an election.”   
      
   The Harris campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for   
   comment.   
      
   According to Lamb, over 50% of all the fentanyl in America enters the U.S.   
   through Arizona’s border with Mexico.   
      
   In 2021, 44 children died from fentanyl poisoning in Arizona, according to   
   the Arizona Child Fatality Review Program. Among the deaths, “seven were   
   under the age of one,” Lamb said. “I mean, those statistics alone should   
   get your elected officials unelected, you know? But we as Americans don’t   
   seem to want to hold our elected officials accountable, because we were   
   offended by … the way somebody talks or the things they tweet.”   
      
   Lamb ran for U.S. Senate, but Republican Kari Lake defeated him in   
   Arizona’s GOP primary election in July.   
      
   The sheriff joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what to expect on   
   election night in Arizona, one of seven swing states, and the role the   
   border crisis is playing in the way Americans are voting this election.   
      
      
   --   
   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and   
   eradicated.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
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