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Arizona border agents seize 1.2 million fentanyl pills




Greg Wehner
Thu, December 29, 2022 at 10:07 PM EST






Port of Nogales, Arizona border patrol agents stopped over 1.2 million fentanyl pills and four pounds of fentanyl powder from entering the United States on Wednesday.

Port Director Michael W. Humphries of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection gave a breakdown of the drug acquisition on Thursday.







U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized over 1.2 million fentanyl pills between two busts on Wednesday.

"CBP officers stopped two loads on Wednesday," Humphries said on Twitter. "First load contained approx. 541,000 fentanyl pills, 4 lbs fentanyl powder and 37.55 lbs of meth concealed in doors and rear panels of cars. Seven hours later, approx. 689,200 fentanyl pills were found hidden throughout a vehicle."

ARIZONA BORDER OFFICERS FIND MORE THAN 700,000 FENTANYL PILLS HIDDEN IN TRAIN ARRIVING FROM MEXICO

Just five days earlier, Humphries reported a seizure of 230,600 fentanyl pills in the spare tire of a wheel well of a car, and another 832,000 fentanyl pills in a different vehicle trying to enter the U.S. through the Port of Nogales.

Fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border with Mexico have continued to surge this year.
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U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman issued a press release in August, saying, "The amount of fentanyl we are seizing at the border is staggering."

BORDER PATROL UNION PRESIDENT SAYS AGENTS FEEL ‘COMPLETELY DEFEATED’ AHEAD OF TITLE 42'S END

The comments came as the Justice Department revealed that several ports in Southern California were at the center of a surge in fentanyl seizures at the border, where roughly 60% of seizures of the deadly drug took place in 2022.

But that rise has been seen at ports all along the border, with law enforcement agencies on both sides of the southern border making record busts in 2022.

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Law enforcement officials have warned of a spike in deaths linked to the illicit drug — which is 100 times more potent than morphine and can be fatal in tiny amounts.

The drug is created primarily in Mexico using precursors from China, and it is then transferred across the land border of the U.S.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-b...030704122.html

Mexico is a terrorist nation.

They are no better than ISIS or the Taliban.

They are murdering thousands of Americans with Fentanyl without firing a shot. This should be a Declaration of War and nothing less.

They are dumping their gangs, murderers, cartels, diseases, terrorists, and rapists over our border. They are setting up shop all across America and now this cancer has spread into our rural communities.

That border needs to be shut down completely.

Any trade should be sent via shipping, and we need to deport 35 million illegal aliens, many of whom are working for gangs and drug cartel to pay off their illegal border crossings.

Of course, the corrupt money laundering vegetable in the White House is off on another beach vacation and does not give one damn about the death and destruction he has caused this country and the American people while embezzling our tax dollars to facilitate his drug, human, and child trafficking.

Is Joe Biden "the big guy" getting 10% from the Mexican drug cartel?

I sure hope there will be investigations into this.

Arizona Agrees to Dismantle Border Wall Made From Cargo Containers

Gov. Doug Ducey agreed to remove the barrier after the Biden administration sued, accusing the state of trespassing on federal land and damaging the environment.



The winding makeshift border wall made from shipping containers runs through several miles of national forest along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.
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By Jack Healy
Dec. 21, 2022

PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona agreed on Wednesday to tear down a makeshift border wall built out of old shipping containers, ending a divisive border security effort that sparked protests and legal challenges.

The agreement came as part of a lawsuit filed last week by the Biden administration against Mr. Ducey, a Republican. The federal suit sought to force the governor to remove hundreds of steel shipping containers he had ordered stacked up for miles along Arizona’s southern border in response to what he called Washington’s failure to resolve a migrant crisis.

The Biden administration argued that Mr. Ducey’s wall was constructed illegally on federal land.

The agreement to remove the containers comes as border town officials and thousands of migrants at the U.S. border with Mexico are waiting anxiously to see whether the United States will soon end a pandemic-era policy known as Title 42 that has allowed for the rapid expulsion of migrants.

Since August, construction crews have hauled old shipping containers to plug gaps in the border fence along a busy migrant corridor in the farm town of Yuma but have also hauled them to a remote stretch of the Coronado National Forest in southeast Arizona that sees scant migrant crossings compared with other parts of the border. The project, funded by the Republican-controlled State Legislature, has cost at least $82 million, Mr. Ducey’s office said.

In addition to trespassing on federal land, the government accused Arizona of damaging vegetation and seasonal streams in a national forest. It sued Arizona last week to dismantle the wall.

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The agreement signed on Wednesday between the governor’s office and federal officials was reached to prevent Washington from seeking a restraining order against the state, according to court records.

C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for Mr. Ducey, said the governor had agreed to remove the hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers because federal officials were taking steps to build new permanent barriers to fill in gaps in the existing border wall.

“We’ve said from the very beginning that the shipping container program is temporary,” Mr. Karamargin said. “We’ll happily remove them if the federal government gets serious and does what they’re supposed to do, which is secure the border. We now have indications that they’re moving closer, that they’re more serious.”

The Homeland Security Department announced in July that it would close four gaps in the existing wall in Yuma, as record numbers of migrants have arrived at the southern border, many surrendering to Border Patrol officers to pursue asylum claims.

It was unclear when crews would begin dismantling Mr. Ducey’s container wall, or how much it would cost to remove the 9,000-pound boxes and repair environmental damage done after bulldozers cut roads, blocked streams and uprooted oaks and junipers.

In Arizona, some Republican sheriffs and local officials in border towns praised the governor, who leaves office next month, for taking border security into his own hands in defiance of the federal government. But critics, including Mr. Ducey’s incoming Democratic successor, Katie Hobbs, called the border wall a waste of taxpayer money.

Russ McSpadden, the southwest conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, said he was heartened by the news.

“Governor Ducey has wasted countless millions of taxpayer dollars building his damaging and illegal shipping container wall,” Mr. McSpadden said in a statement. “Nevertheless, we’re very pleased to see him agree to remove his political stunt.”

For weeks over the last month, Mr. McSpadden joined other activists and neighbors upset about the project in gathering in the national forest. They set up a protest camp and managed to halt construction by standing in front of bulldozers.

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