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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 05:28 PM Apr 2018

Trump Is Freaking Out About the Wrong Border: Killer Fentanyl Is Coming From Canada

CHRISTOPHER MORAFF at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-freaking-out-about-the-wrong-border-killer-fentanyl-is-coming-from-canada?ref=home

"SNIP........

President Donald Trump has made building a wall along the southern border the backbone of his anti-drug policy to keep deadly narcotics like fentanyl from entering the country from Mexico.

But last month, as the president was delivering remarks at yet another public listening session on the opioid crisis, focusing his attention on a multimillion-dollar security investment on America’s southwest border, law enforcement officials in Canada announced they had shut down a massive flow of deadly narcotics coming to the U.S. from the opposite direction.

The trafficking operation, based in Calgary, Alberta—just a three-hour drive north of the Montana border—was capable of producing an estimated 18,000 counterfeit pills an hour for export to the U.S. and Canadian markets.

Cutting dyes on seized pill presses bore the stamps “80” and “CDN,” which are commonly associated with the prescription painkiller OxyContin. But there was no oxycodone (the active ingredient in Oxys) to be found. Instead, investigators from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Clandestine Lab Enforcement and Response (CLEAR) Team discovered 18 kilos of suspected fentanyl in two different locations.

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Trump Is Freaking Out About the Wrong Border: Killer Fentanyl Is Coming From Canada (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2018 OP
Our back-asswards president gets it wrong again Ohiogal Apr 2018 #1
Not to his base. Caliman73 Apr 2018 #2
"You're going the wrong way!!!!!!!!!!!!" eleny Apr 2018 #3
He doesn't care about drugs. JI7 Apr 2018 #4
Scott Walker had this figured out long ago! Still In Wisconsin Apr 2018 #5

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
2. Not to his base.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 05:42 PM
Apr 2018

People in Canada for the most part, are White. To a Trump supporter, regardless of facts, the Southern border where the Brown people are, will always be the border to be concerned about.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
5. Scott Walker had this figured out long ago!
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 06:12 PM
Apr 2018

In an attempt to one-up TRUMP during the primary he proposed a NORTHERN border wall to go along with a Southern one. Ahh good old President Walker with his national poll number of * among likely voters in the Republican primary.

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