Fentanyl-laced pills and fentanyl powder itself are both flooding into America – and a former DEA official is warning that options to stop the flow are dwindling.
American Family News spoke to Derek Maltz, a former head of the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He contends it will be difficult to make meaningful steps against drug trafficking over “an out-of-control border” while President Joe Biden is in office.
“It’s not going to happen anytime soon while [Biden] is running the country,” he explains. “But at some point, the border is going to have to be treated like a major water leak in your house: the only way to stop the problem immediately is by shutting down the main valve.”
In 2022, more than 50 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder were seized by law enforcement. According to the DEA, this represents nearly 380 million doses of fentanyl – which is enough to destroy the U.S. population.
“Thousands will continue to die,” Maltz warns. “Drugs are spilling over into the United States at an unprecedented level, so we have to shut down the main valve [in Mexico] that’s flooding the country with a variety of drugs and deadly doses of fentanyl.”
The fight against “deadly poisons” flooding across the border, he argues, will take more than the drug seizures currently happening at the border and throughout the country.
“[The U.S.] has to take action against cartels like we’ve never taken,” the former DEA exec advises. “If al-Qaeda was in Mexico planning a terrorist attack in Washington, DC, we would be taking action the terrorists.
“Cartels are no longer just drug cartels, [as] they have evolved, growing so powerful that they’re running the country [of Mexico],” he points out. “The FBI director, DEA administrator, and Homeland Security director need to be meeting, coming up with a detailed plain on what the country of Mexico can do to help the United States.”
Wipe out cartels’ infrastructure
Maltz suggests the U.S. offer technology to Mexico that could be used to cripple drug labs. “The labs must be eliminated, and the command-and-control infrastructure of the cartels must be destroyed,” he explains.
If Mexico declines to offer help, there should be consequences, he adds. “The president would then have to make a decision on what’s in the best interest of American families and kids,” Maltz states.
While the goal wouldn’t be to go to war with Mexico, the objective he says would be to “cause a lot of pain and suffering” to the cartels.
“It means destroying the drug cartels’ capabilities from the sky with the same technology we use in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Africa – and it could crush their supply processes,” Maltz says. “In the time it may take them to regroup, Americans lives would be saved.”
Continuing efforts to educate and raise awareness about the dangers of drugs and fentanyl would have to accompany such an effort. “We’re not teaching kids about the new problems and dangers of synthetic drugs,” he contends. “Instead, there are efforts to want to legalize drugs – and that’s sending mixed messages.”
In a parting shot, Maltz argues that the messaging must get back on track.
“… We have to develop a more comprehensive solution to a comprehensive problem,” he argues. “And as far as I’m concerned, having had years of experience, the only way to really stop the immediate problem is by destroying the infrastructure in Mexico, which would stop the flow of drugs into the country.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
It ain’t rocket science, which is exactly why the dem-rats don’t get it.
Instead of adding 86,000 IRS agents to squeeze every nickel out of WORKING Americans so they can house ILLEGALS in 1st Class Hotels and GIVE them FREE college education, (and everything else free), they could hire more than the 350 Border Patrol agents.
The country is literally being invaded on an hourly basis, and the disgusting dem-rats do NOTHING, zero, zilch, nada, about it.
When will the citizenry of this country smarten up and grow a pair??
This is why i say, GRIND UP EVERY pill of Fentinyl we get, STICK THEM IN crop duster planes, and SPRAY THEM ALL OVER Cartel territory!
Anyone caught with more than 2 or 3 pills should be force fed a dozen or so of the tablets one the spot.
That’s why when i saw news the other day, that they may make the “Overdose saving kits’ over the counter, part of me was like “WHY?” Maybe if we STOPPED SAVING The druggies, from overdosing, Many would STOP using, as they know there’d be no safety net.
As long as the communists are in office, running our Country, nothing will be done to stop this evil, the evil of drugs, the evil of the devil!!!
With open borders what do you Expect ?? Biden doesn’t understand open borders and drugs coming into the country. Then George Floyd DA and attorneys says his body had become A custom to it. Fentanyl doesn’t kill and isn’t that bad. Democrats loves criminals and drugs .