If you talk to any sheriff on the southern border, they will tell you the amount of fentanyl pouring over our border is at rates that they've never even seen. I think One sheriff on the Arizona border said in 2000, they confiscated 6 million fentanyl pills. By 2023, they confiscated 111 million fentanyl pills. And are we surprised that we're losing our young people to this? So, no, that border bill was frankly a joke and wasn't going to do anything significant to really close our border. (16:52–17:10)
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