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Would cost about $8,000 to make, could be turned into a million pills and sold for $20 million to $30 million on the black market. that from a small container that looks like this. >> the vast majority of fentanyl is produced in china. it comes to the u.s. two ways. comes in to mexico where it is combined with heroin. the other way is american consumers buy it direct often times from vendors from china. >> reporter: then it's mailed in? >> u.s. mail is common. a small quantity of fentanyl is hard to detect in the passes of letters that come in to the u.s. every day. >> reporter: how effective ...

>> the economic migrants down here certainly are a vulnerable population. but i think what middle america and most people don't realize is are cartels are making tons of money off of everybody who crosses this river. $1.7 million a week are made into the cartel's pocketsad from the unaccompanied children and family units that are crossing. >> sean: just here. >> in this area alone. >> sean: what are the drugs you are seeing besides marijuana and heroin? >> fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine. we continue to lead the country in apprehensions and seizures. 40,000 pounds of marijuana already just ...

And 6,000 gang members including ms-13 apprehended. a big human trafficking problem. quick fact check on each those claims that echo similar statements he made yesterday. first that 1.7 pounds of narcotics that have been seized, according to customs and border protection, this number is accurate, but the way trump is using it is misleading. that's because the majority of hard narcotics seized by the u.s. come through legal ports of entry. most heroin, for instance, is moved into the country through privately owned vehicles at private ports fold by tractor trailers where the heroin is mixed in ...

Usually, undocumented migrants make a left and not a right when they get to the end of the fence and come to the united states? makes no sense. he said, drugs don't go through ports of entry, as justification for his wall. in fact, the vast majority of drugs, hard narcotics leading to the greatest overdose crisis in american history are coming through the ports of entry that our staffed by customs and border protection officials every day. the world's busiest border land crossing is the san ysidro cross. instead of increasing resources there, the president wants to shut it down entirely earlie...

The border and we're talking about drug smuggling increasing between ports of entry. hard narcotics and we've seen it increase this year. we need a barrier to help us stop that and push the traffic into areas we can control more effectively. >> democrats are digging in saying the $5 billion for the wall won't happen not yet. we'll see what happens in january when they take over the house. >> eric: a couple of days they'll have the vote thursday. speaking of the democrats and shutdown. any sign of movement at all? there was some discussion of possible compromise. >> i got to tell you, on backgr...