While the majority of fentanyl is seized at the U.S.-Mexico border, 93 percent of those seizures happened at legal crossing points last year. More than 86 percent of people sentenced for trafficking fentanyl in 2023 were U.S. citizens, and almost all fentanyl is smuggled for U.S. consumers.
Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, has long weaponized his own family's history with addiction to bolster anti-immigrant policies, including positing a conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden could have 'open[ed] up the floodgates to the border' to allow fentanyl into the U.S. 'to kill a bunch of MAGA voters.'
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