Time for a Reckoning Against the Mexican Cartels and China

  Katie Pavlich  |  Mar 03, 2023

This week, Republicans on Capitol Hill highlighted the horrific, silent and ugly scourge killing more than 100,0000 Americans each year. Fentanyl overdose or poisoning is the number one killer of the country's young people and increasing at an annual rate of 25 percent.  The reality of the crisis once again became crystal clear when Rebecca Kiessling told the story about her two sons, who both died from fentanyl poisoning after taking pills they thought were Percocet – a prescription painkiller. 

"You talk about children being taken away from their parents. My children were taken away from me," she said through tears and emotion. "I don't use the term overdose, because this was not an overdose. This was murder." 

"If we had Chinese troops lining up along our southern border with weapons aimed at our people, with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our people, you damn well know you would do something about it," Kiessling continued. "This is a war. Act like it. Do something." 

Chinese suppliers work directly with Mexican cartels to flood the United States with fentanyl, which is often disguised as or unknowingly laced into prescription and street drugs. ...............To Read More...