re: Anybody who has had a family member or friend die from fentanyl doesn’t give a

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The federal governments (sic, government's) first job was to protect American citizens.

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Please cite the specific constitutional provision which you believe gives rise to this alleged duty.

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Please frick off …. I know your game

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Fentanyl, and the declared National Health Emergency attributed to it, is the underpinning of most everything we're doing right now in regards to Venezuela and the War on Drugs 2.0(tm).

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For one, Venezuela likely has nothing to do with smuggling fentanyl into the US. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) annual National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA)—its definitive statement on drug sources and trafficking routes—makes the picture clear: fentanyl is produced overwhelmingly in Mexico, using precursor chemicals that come primarily from China and India.

Across every edition of the NDTA, Venezuela never appears as a fentanyl source or transit country. In other words, even the federal government’s own drug-intelligence apparatus does not link Venezuela to the US fentanyl supply.

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Interdiction data tell the same story. Recent, publicly available US Coast Guard and Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF)–South’s seizure data do not show any fentanyl coming from Venezuelan-linked maritime routes. The Coast Guard’s drug-interdiction reports are filled with seizures of cocaine, marijuana, and occasional heroin in the Caribbean—but essentially no fentanyl, and none linked to Venezuela. Given that the arrests and offloads are heavily dominated by cocaine and the frequency of reports, the absence of fentanyl in hundreds of listed shipments is significant, not a trivial oversight.

There has never been a US Department of Justice indictment involving fentanyl trafficked from Venezuela or the Caribbean corridor.

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