It was smuggled into Central and South America, and then the cartels would bring it into our country, and a lot of our people would get poisoned and killed because of it. We. We said if you got control of the southern border, we would see a substantial reduction in the number of people who died from fentanyl overdoses in the United States of America. And that is exactly what's happened now. Yes, the President has raised this with President Xi any number of times. I know it came up during the meeting that they had in China just last week, but it's come up in any number of phone calls. (18:30–18:42)
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Asserts that controlling the southern border has reduced fentanyl overdose deaths.
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