West Virginia Attorney General issued the following announcement on Jan. 28.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey spoke Friday at the country’s southern border where he and attorneys general from 12 other states have been getting a firsthand look at the crisis on the U.S. southern border.
In a news conference, he forcefully denounced the Biden administration and said the federal government needs to stop abdicating its responsibility to protect people from scourges such as fentanyl, which is killing record numbers of West Virginians.
“Words really can’t adequately describe what all of us experienced the last couple of days and the horrific catastrophe we’re seeing down here at the border. Not only undocumented aliens streaming across the border, human trafficking, but fentanyl,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “These drugs are flowing into the heartland from across the southern border. Bodies are starting to pile up as a result of the utter failure of this administration. And it’s time they do something about it. In West Virginia, we experience the illegal immigration problem most acutely through the explosion of fentanyl into our state. We’re seeing it all the time. Deaths are rising, doubling in many of our counties.”
He went on to call for the firing of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for having “failed miserably at the highest level of government” in his duty to control the flow of drugs across the nation’s southern border.
Attorney General Morrisey has led the charge against fentanyl flooding into our country and poisoning our citizens. This includes his filing a landmark lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over the termination of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required certain asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border to return to Mexico while awaiting their asylum hearing in U.S. immigration court.
Most fentanyl available in the United States gets its start as raw ingredients made in China, which are then shipped to Mexico and used by the cartels in that country to manufacture the dangerous opioids. From there, the drug is trafficked into the U.S. across the southwest border.
Seizures of fentanyl at the border increased from approximately 1,187 kilograms in 2019 to approximately 2,939 kilograms in 2020.
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