Gov. Greg Abbott blames Mexican drug cartels for transporting fentanyl into Texas. | via TexasTribune
Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton at a border security briefing in January. On Wednesday, Abbott directed the Department of Public Safety to target drug cartels as fentanyl deaths continue in Texas.
“Fentanyl is a clandestine killer, and Texans are falling victim to the Mexican cartels that are producing it,” Abbott said at a roundtable in Midland with DPS Director Steve McCraw and local law enforcement and political officials. Interrupting the transport of fentanyl into the United States has been a major justification for Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border initiative. Last year, the governor announced a significant increase in fentanyl confiscations along the border, though critics contended his statistics were misleading. In one instance, Abbott credited Operation Lone Star for seizing 887 pounds of fentanyl, when less than 20% of that was confiscated in the 63 counties involved in the initiative.
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