texas law enforcement alone has sees enough deadly fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in the entire united states of america. any war on drugs emerging in the key campaign issue. joe biden will never solve the fentanyl crisis. he is actively destroying our border. the stuff is just flooding in. it s affecting communities all across this country. what will it take to stop the flow of drugs into the united states? this is a red alert moment. it s punishing the drug itself really effective? what we need to assault this crisis in america. come together in bipartisan way. what is the best approach to the growing public health crisis? my guess this morning? dea administrator, anne and the entire ohio u.s. senate delegation. j.d. vance and democrat, shirt brown. a panel of experts on the front lines of this crisis. former chicago mayor, lightfoot. jen writer and dr. andrew colodny, the policy researcher collaborative at brandeis university. welcome to sunda
they have failed this whole issue of immigration and the border. so you can talk about all the technology, and i want the technology. i want our agents to have all the latest technology not just our agents, but our police in barberton, ohio, and norwood, ohio, and southern ohio to have the kind of technology that can protect their lives and help them ferret this stuff out better. but i think that not nearly all the fentanyl comes across the border, but we ll never be that s why our bill that scott and i worked on is so important, because it will really it will cut back on the production, because we can t stop it all from coming in because it comes in a whole bunch of different ways. right. do you is there the fact that fentanyl comes in the country, does that mean we have an unsecure border or can we have a secure border and still have a fentanyl oh, i think if we have a secure border and we need a secure border. and we need congress to actually work together on that
in cabell county, west virginia, a county of 92k. and that year, we had 202 deaths from overdoses, and more than 70% of those were from fentanyl. and that was the year that fentanyl really came into our area. it s tougher you know, gets tougher to save lives because that one time that they overdose can be it. is there any best practice you ve seen or developed or tried to work with in the last six years that you think is worth pursuing? i think that what we need to do is stay focused on each individual and be kind and to realize that these are the most fragile people. it s very shame-based, it s guilt-based, and we need to provide them with the self-worth that they need to accept the treatment. you feel like we need a cultural change. i think we need a cultural change, because still today, the number-one barrier is stigma. more than anything else.
collaboration after house speaker nancy pelosi visited the island of taiwan in 2022. last, week justice department filed the first ever charges against chinese companies that they believe are responsible for manufacturing precursor chemicals. stopping the chinese chemical companies that are supplying the cartels with the building blocks they need to manufacture deadly fentanyl, we are targeting every step of the movement, manufacturing and sale of fentanyl from start to finish. and u.s. mexico cooperation on drug trafficking has collapsed under this current mexican president. notice amlo, who has denied that fentanyl is even produce in mexico. and then he lashed out at the united states for spying and, quote, interference, after 28 members of the sinaloa cartel were charged in april. last, year the dea seized over 13 and 70 million 79 million doses a federal.
there is what i ve seen over the last few years is a fundamental shift in people s willingness to talk about it and including just walking into a room. i almost do not walk into a room right now where someone hasn t lost a loved one or someone in their community, and that has changed over the last few years. so you feel like there s a shift over the last couple of years. i feel like there s a shift. do i think we re where we need to be yet? no. i think way too many americans still don t understand that on social media, that, you know where your kid might be, that pill is potentially deadly, and there are no second chances. and so i think we have to continue to increase awareness. is our fentanyl issue a bigger problem at the border or bigger problem in social media? so, you know, the border is an important part of this conversation, because most of the fentanyl that we see coming into the united states is coming in through the southwest border. in the indictments we announced