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A bag of flour. if this were street drugs, it would cost $8,000 and turned into 1 million pills and sold for $20 million to $30 million on the black market. all of that in a small container that looks like this. >> it is produced in china, comes into the u.s. two ways, you know, it comes into mexico where it is pressed or combined with heroin. the other way it comes in is american consumers buying direct from vendors out of china. >> mailed in? >> u.s. mail is common. a very small quantity is hard to detect in the masses of letters that come into the u.s. every day. >> how effective is a wall ...

It comes into mexico, where it is pressed into pill form or combined with heroin. the other way it comes in is american consumers buying it direct, oftentimes from vendors out of china. >> then it gets mailed in? >> u.s. mail, which is the most common, a very small quantity of fentanyl is very hard to detect in the masses of letters that come into the u.s. everyday. >> reporter: how effective is a wall at preventing drugs from getting into the united states? >> in terms of hard narcotics, i don't know that it's over hard narcotics. as of right now, the vast majority of hard narcotics comes in ...

If this were street fentanyl it would cost about $8,000 to make. it could be turned into a million yon burns and -- all of that from a small container that looks like this. >> the vast majority of fentanyl is produced in china. it comes into the u.s. two ways. it comes into mexico where it is combined with heroin. the other way it comes in is american consumer is buying it frequent oftentimes. >> and then it gets mailed in. >> u.s. mail, which is the most common. a very small quantityty of fentanyl is very hard to detect in the masses of letters that come into the u.s. in a few. >> how effecti...

Direct from china. >> and then it gets mailed in. >> u.s. mail, which is the most common. a very small quantity of fentanyl is very hard to detect in the masses of letters that come into the u.s. in a few. >> how effective is a wall at preventing drugs from getting into the united states? >> in terms of hard narcotics, no. i don't know that we get immediately safer other hard narcotics. as of now, the vast majority of narcotics come in through the ports of entry or mail order express con sign wants. >> what we're talking about fentanyl, again, a hundred times stronger than morphine, 50 times s...

Preventing drugs from getting into the united states? >> in terms of hard narcotics i don't know we will get immediately safer. the vast majority of hard narcotics come in through the ports of entry in deep concealment or come in through the mail or express consignments. >> i should point out when it comes to the mail, you may know this, there's about a million pieces of mail that come in every day that have no electronic record. we don't know where it came from, how many places that piece of mail may have visited beforehand. that's the real concern. it's the drugs are so small as you saw ther...