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Biden’s US border crisis is now deadly enough to kill EVERY American

By
Post Editorial Board
Published Jan. 19, 2024, 12:14 p.m. ET

Joe Biden’s border crisis is deadly enough to kill every American, literally — as proven by the 386 million doses of fentanyl seized by the DEA in 2023. 

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between 18 and 45. 

The 12 months ending in April 2023 saw more than 111,355 overdose deaths among Americans — even higher than the already record-breaking 110,394 the year before.

At an average of 22 deaths per week, the death rate for teen drug ODs in 2022 more than doubled the rate in 2018, another grim figure driven by the synthetic opioid. 

Fentanyl victim Ashley Dunn died of an overdose in 2021; her mother gave heartbreaking testimony before Congress Thursday at an impeachment inquiry hearing for Biden’s border enabler No. 1, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Pathetically, slimy Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) tried to deflect blame onto a supposed lack of Customs and Border Protection resources, only to be thunderously and correctly shut down by Ashley’s mother, Josephine.

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Los Angeles Field Division, shows some of the seized approximately 1 million fake pills containing fentanyl that were seized when agents served a search warrant, July 5, 2022, at a home in Inglewood, Calif. Heading into key elections, there have been assertions that the drug might be handed out like Halloween candy, something the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's head has said isn't true. And some candidates for elected office frame the crisis as mostly a border-control issue, though experts say the key to reining in the crisis is reducing demand for the drugs. (Drug Enforcement Administration via AP, File)
Over 300 million doses of fentanyl were seized by the DEA in 2023. AP

Making Goldman’s smug indifference worse, nearly 10% of the DEA’s record 2023 fentanyl haul was captured right here in New York. 

By the way: A huge chunk of the record US fentanyl seizure was disguised as another drug — in some cases, prescription drugs — amounting to 37 million lethal doses.  

No wonder this poison is killing adults and children across the country. 

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock (14306279a)
Josephine Dunn, whose daughter died of a fentanyl overdose, gave tearful testimony at the impeachment hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

It is the public health crisis of our age: not racism, not COVID. 

And our public health experts don’t make anywhere near the same outraged noise they do about politically approved health issues. 

Why is that? 

Well, consider where all the fentanyl comes from: the man these experts overwhelmingly voted for. 

A picture of Ashley Dunn is seen as her mother, Josephine Dunn, cries during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on the southern border at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Thursday, January 18, 2024. Ashley Dunn died in 2021 after ingesting fentanyl, which she believed to be oxycodone.
Ashley Dunn died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

It moves across our utterly open southern border after being manufactured by powerful narco cartels in Mexico, typically from China-made starter chemicals. 

The millions of illegal migrants Biden has invited in to crush the economies and social services of towns from Texas to the Big Apple are bad enough. 

That he has also opened his country, which he swore to defend and protect, to this toxic scourge is a moral obscenity.

He has the blood of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans on his hands. (Yet he manages to laugh at it.) 

This alone should disqualify him from re-election. Â