Drug Overdose Deaths Are Skyrocketing in North Carolina. Blame Biden’s Open Borders
As an ongoing war against an influx of drugs is fought at the southern border, President Joe Biden’s lackadaisical approach to security has left thousands of North Carolinians dead from fentanyl overdoses.
Fentanyl continues to flood over the southern border due to President Joe Biden’s nonexistent border policies and North Carolina residents are sadly feeling some of the harshest effects, as thousands die from drug overdoses every year.
In total, 1 in 35 North Carolinians will die of a drug overdose in their lifetime, the worst in the nation after Arizona, according to data from Just Facts. 4,022 North Carolinians died from overdose in 2022—expect that grim figure to swell as Biden’s open border allows smugglers to bring a constant wave of drugs into the U.S.
In 2021, nearly 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses and the leading killer was opioids, particularly fentanyl—a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. In recent years, fentanyl has flooded the streets of America wreaking havoc as it goes.
A majority of the fentanyl on the market was manufactured in Mexico or China and subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The southern border under President Biden remains the key entry point for the drug, responsible for over 70 percent of overdoses in 2022.
Biden continues to ignore the constant invasion of illegal aliens and the influx of dangerous drugs at the border, as he and his “progressive” cronies would rather arm the illegal aliens with firearms than send them home and focus on protecting Americans.
Open Borders
Drug busts are on the rise as fentanyl continues to flood the southern border. Why not stop it before it enters the country?
In February, California announced that the California National Guard’s counter-drug operations in 2023 led to a record seizure of 62,224 pounds of fentanyl in California. The amount seized is enough to kill the entire global population—twice.
Since 2021, fentanyl seizures by the California National Guard have increased by 1,066 percent. Nationally, the amount of fentanyl seized by U.S. law enforcement has grown by 463 percent from 4,800 lbs. to 27,000 lbs.
Biden continues to ignore the border crisis and at times work against those who are trying to block an invasion. In 2022, a coalition of 18 attorneys general formed a coalition urging Biden to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
“Fentanyl overdoses have already claimed the lives of far too many Kentuckians, and we want to ensure bad actors do not further weaponize this substance to harm Kentuckians and Americans,” said Attorney General Cameron. “We’ve called on the Biden Administration to declare fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction. I hope the President heeds our advice and takes immediate action to equip law enforcement with more tools to protect Kentuckians from this highly lethal substance.”
Even “progressive” Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D), who lambasted former President Donald Trump’s border wall while running for office in 2022, is starting to worry. In December, she requested a $512 million reimbursement from the Biden Administration for the southern border security “failure.”
(RELATED: Biden Has Undone Trump’s Work to Stop Chinese Fentanyl Smuggling)
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Alongside CCP sponsored super heroin, China may be sending military-age combatants into the country through the southern border. In 2023 alone, there was a 7,000 percent increase of nearly 24,000 Chinese immigrants entering via Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap.
The majority are single, military-age men, raising suspicions that the CCP is infiltrating America with more than just drugs. One national security expert told Newsweek that she’s “99% certain that at least a little bit of this is [the] Chinese military infiltrating for reasons harmful to our national security” and intending “to spy and report back” to the People’s Liberation Army.
Amidst all of this, Biden is seemingly more interested in picking ice cream flavors than protecting Americans. The current border crisis goes beyond just millions of illegal aliens flooding the country, but once again, Biden won’t fight for the American people.
(READ MORE: Fentanyl Letters Prove “Mainstream” Media Has a Political Axe To Grind)
