Back to episode — Episode 2781 CWSA 03/17/25
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have much going on. I think they're going to have to pick again. I think they'll have to pick a woman because the Democrats are very woman focused, and I think the woman will have to be a woman of color. So that says AOC, Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett, and I don't think any of them can win against any solid Republican candidate. So how in the world will they ever go back in power? Anyway, speak…
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Well, Libs of TikTok and others were showing that according to the border patrol, the amount of fentanyl seizures at the US-Mexico border is down 40 percent since January. It's the lowest level since 2021. Now that would suggest that closing the border also has already greatly reduced the flow of fentanyl, right? Well, probably not. It might be that the fentanyl is reduced, but not because the border got better controlled, because if you didn't know this, the fentanyl is not coming across in the pockets of the individuals who are walking across the border in places we didn't want them to walk across the border. That's not how it gets in. That would be the worst way to do it. It turns out that almost all of it goes in automobiles that are legally entering the country. So it's not like there's a lot of illegal entries that also had fentanyl. That almost doesn't exist. What it is is that we can only check maybe 20 percent of the traffic, and because it's so cheap to make fentanyl, you wouldn't really care if 20 percent of it got caught as long as 80 percent didn't.
So since I don't think there's been any real change in how the legal traffic back and forth that goes through legal checkpoints, I don't think there's been a change there. So one of the changes there could be is a lot of expense to bring in more scanning devices that they can use on automobiles, but even then it would slow down traffic to the point where I'm not sure you could really do it because it would just stop all border traffic.
So here's what I think. I don't think that the decrease in illegal entries is really correlated with the decrease in fentanyl, but if fentanyl is actually way down — and it might be, you know, they only report what they caught, not what got through, so we don't know it's down, we just know that what we caught is way down — it could be that there's some other pressure on the fentanyl dealers. I assume there is. So it could be that the labs are being disrupted and they have to relocate
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because they're worried about our Reaper drones getting ready to set them on fire. So it could be just the operation is completely skedaddling to try to hide their labs, and it's going to take a couple months before they can crank up. Maybe just that. Could be that there's enough pressure on China finally that fewer precursors are making it to Mexico to be turned into fentanyl. Maybe. I think that…
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