Mon. Jul 1st, 2024

Sorry, MAGA. Americans, Not Migrants, Are Smuggling Fentanyl.<!-- wp:html --><p>AFP via Getty </p> <p>In one 48-hour period last week, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-wonders-why-house-gop-is-against-border-patrol-agents">Customs and Border Patrol</a> officers thwarted three separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the U.S. at the Paso Del Norte Border Crossing in Texas.</p> <p>None were migrants, despite the narrative being peddled across <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-refuse-to-take-yes-for-an-answer-on-the-border">MAGA world</a> that immigrants bring the deadly drug with them as they pour across a supposedly open border.</p> <p>All three—a 20-year-old who had 37 pounds stashed in a spare tire, a 45-year-old who had .29 pounds in her vagina, and a 26-year-old who had .16 pounds similarly concealed—were American citizens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-claim-that-migrants-smuggle-the-fentanyl-is-junk">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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In one 48-hour period last week, Customs and Border Patrol officers thwarted three separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the U.S. at the Paso Del Norte Border Crossing in Texas.

None were migrants, despite the narrative being peddled across MAGA world that immigrants bring the deadly drug with them as they pour across a supposedly open border.

All three—a 20-year-old who had 37 pounds stashed in a spare tire, a 45-year-old who had .29 pounds in her vagina, and a 26-year-old who had .16 pounds similarly concealed—were American citizens.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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