{"id":15263,"date":"2024-11-05T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2024-11-05T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:46:01","slug":"both-trump-and-harris-would-crack-down-on-fentanyl-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15263","title":{"rendered":"Both Trump and Harris Would Crack Down on Fentanyl as President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;the vast majority of fentanyl brought into the U.S. is&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;carried by illegal immigrants or the result of porous borders: From 2019 to 2024, 80.2 percent of the people arrested at the border with fentanyl were U.S. citizens,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/us-citizens-were-802-crossers-fentanyl-ports-entry-2019-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to David J. Bier<\/a>, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as NPR&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/08\/09\/1191638114\/fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-border-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported last year<\/a>, &#8220;the vast majority of illicit fentanyl\u2014close to 90%\u2014is seized at official border crossings.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2yvaX2ujYz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/02\/both-trump-and-harris-would-crack-down-on-fentanyl-as-president\/\">Both Trump and Harris Would Crack Down on Fentanyl as President<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Both Trump and Harris Would Crack Down on Fentanyl as President&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/02\/both-trump-and-harris-would-crack-down-on-fentanyl-as-president\/embed\/#?secret=IXd7PgBYVj#?secret=2yvaX2ujYz\" data-secret=\"2yvaX2ujYz\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the vast majority of fentanyl brought into the U.S. is not carried by illegal immigrants or the result of porous borders: From 2019 to 2024, 80.2 percent of the people arrested at the border with fentanyl were U.S. citizens, according to David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.<br \/>\nAnd as NPR reported last year, &#8220;the vast majority of illicit fentanyl\u2014close to 90%\u2014is seized at official border crossings.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/02\/both-trump-and-harris-would-crack-down-on-fentanyl-as-president\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,439,1563,26],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-illegal-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}