Drug cartels are increasingly expanding their manufacturing operations on American soil to take advantage of the country’s ongoing opioid epidemic, a former head of the DEA warned this week.
The former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Special Operations Division Derek Maltz said in an interview with The Daily Caller that recent seizures across the U.S. indicate that cartels are manufacturing counterfeit pills in both powder and liquid forms.
“We are seeing fentanyl pill processing operations in America since the powder is getting in at record levels. Recently in South Carolina, they seized 7 pill presses in one location in York,” Maltz said, referring to a South Carolina October operation that involved the seizure of more than 30,000 grams of fentanyl.
As part of their U.S. pill-pressing operations, cartels and their distributors can produce 10,000 pills per hour with a market value of between $10 to $20 per pill.
“The profits are enormous, $100,000-$200,000 per hour in sales, which could yield $800,000 to $1,600,000 in sales per day from using a pill press in residences in America,” Maltz continued. “It only cost the cartels 15 cents to make a pill in Mexico, so the profit margin is huge by selling the fake pills.”
Border agents in Texas have seized thousands of pounds worth of fentanyl in December alone, a trend that suggests cartels are moving their businesses across the southern border with Mexico.
“This demonstrates that the cartels have massive meth and fentanyl conversion labs set up in the USA to convert the drugs from liquid to powder,” Maltz explained. “The reason they can set these labs up in our country is there are so many cartel operatives getting into the country freely. It’s easier to smuggle liquid than powder and this also shows how much demand there is for the deadly drugs in the country.”
Drug-related fatalities remain a leading cause of death in the U.S., with around 107,000 Americans dying of overdoses in 2021 alone. That figure is expected to rise in 2022 as the Biden administration refuses to stop the thousands of people illegally crossing the border every day.
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And they are getting away with this why??
Because of the corrupt, treasonous Democrat Party and their corrupt puppet president Joe Biden’s administration are determined to do as much damage to our country and our citizens as possible and their foolish, useful idiot supporters believe everything their masters tell the. 😯
Or because it is the politicians themselves are in collusion with the Drugs dealers who are also getting rich off of American death. If this is not cuase to decalre war on Mexico and invade and eliminate the drug Lords then there is no reason woth having a military, who sits idly by while forein entites muder our citzens by the hundreds of thousands, with no fear of retribution, because they know the fix is in with Joe, his nose drugged son Hunter, and the bought and paid for Washington politicians.
I’d love to see some hactivist group, go through the financials, with a fine tooth comb, for EVERYONE IN congress, to see exactly HOW MANY ARE on the cartel payrolls…
BECAUSE OUR govt is complicit.. AND SO IS the dea/fbi/doj etc..
why has no republican not cited this administration for treason? and joe biden for deriliction of duty?
our nation is dying a rapid death under communist rule.
BECAUSE OUR GOP is too filled with spineless hacks, rinos and cowards…
Sounds like a solution would be; just as cartels entice DA’s into using their drugs, have their drugs be their own downfall. Offer each person addicted free rehabilitation for up to a year plus a reward of $ (amount to be determined but no less than 15K) to be used for continued rehab (reduced cost), education, clothing, food, shelter) and a job upon successful completion of a rehab program. Where to get the money – confiscated drug money, vehicles, properties, etc. Maybe even reduced the amount of free money to illegal invaders, other countries that hate us anyway, etc.
NO, the solution is to publicly AND SWIFTLY Execute every drug dealer, drug smuggler, drug maker, WITH ALL OF THE POISON THEY ARE CREATING…