The Department of Homeland Security intensified efforts to stop fentanyl trafficking across the southern border. “Operation Blue Lotus” will use new scanning technology, more drug-sniffing dogs and other detection tools to ramp up interdiction efforts.
other detection tools to ramp up interdiction efforts and build criminal cases, officials said. Much of the effort will focus on ports of entry, the land border crossings where more than 90 percent of U.S. fentanyl seizures along the southern border have occurred since the start of the 2023 fiscal year on Oct. 1.
“We are matching this unprecedented challenge with unprecedented solutions,” Mayorkas said, calling fentanyl “the drug of death.” More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, a record, and two-thirds of those deaths were caused by fentanyl, according to the most recent available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. President Biden’s Republican critics blame his border policies for the crisis, saying U.S. authorities are too busy to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States because they’re contending with record numbers of migrants.
Last year, U.S. authorities confiscated more than 14,000 pounds of illegal fentanyl along the southwest border, a record, and this year’s seizure totals are on pace to easily eclipse that amount. U.S. ports of entry in southern Arizona now account for more than half of all the fentanyl seized along the U.S.
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