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of mexican heroin. here s tucker. tucker: opioids are killing tens of thousands of americans every year. it s an epidemic. it s being driven in part by prescription drugs, but not only by prescription drugs. also heroin. more of it is being struggled t smuggled into this country than ever before and almost all of that heroin is coming from mexico across our pourous southern border. matt thomas is the deputy chief of police in arizona, and he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. this is something rarely discussed in washington, but the scale of opioid smuggling across the united states. we have seen a significant increase since 2014. it used to be that arizona, our southern borders, marijuana was the cash crop for the cartel, specifically, that is kind ofju the main cartel for our state. there was a significant shift starting in 2014 where the
provided for everything. two michigan doctors were charged with transporting girls as young as seven across state lines for the procedure. a district court judge ruled that while the federal government may be able to force you to buy health insurance, it cannot bar adults from scarring children in ways they will live with for the rest of their lives. america s war against drugs coming from mexico is going to get far more difficult. the party s newly elected government is moving rapidly towards legalizing marijuana. meanwhile, its highest court has struck down the country s law authorizing the military deployment against the drug cartels. mexico, then, could soon be far more tolerant of drugs in the cartels. meanwhile, heroin brought in overwhelmingly from mexico is killing tens of thousands of americans every year. tucker just spoke with an arizona sheriff about the threat
i ve met with many of them. i met with the 7,200 caravan in for under the governor, specifically working with immigrants. mostly mexican immigrants living in the united states.ll but also, it was my duty to make sure that we treat it in a humanitarian way, these 7,200. i tell you, you sit down with them for a minute and you are in tears. these are children, these are women.it let me finish these are people looking for a better way of life like your family and my family did many years ago coming to the united states. mark: i didn t come as an asylum-seeker, but if i was an asylum-seeker, this caravan has marched across two national i frontiers. it marched into guatemala illegally and then it marched into mexico illegally. if you are an asylum-seeker, i
marijuana smuggling started tofi decline and we started to see a significant increase in the smuggling of heroin, fentanyl, t and methamphetamine. tucker: fentanyl, too? yes.am tucker: okay. give us a sense, large amounts? enough to drive the epidemic that is killing so many americans? oh, absolutely. especially fentanyl, the drug is a danger for anyone who is using it but our officers, as well. we have had several exposures in our state where officers have been exposed to fentanyl and they had to have the narcan to reverse the effects so they don t die of exposure. citizens, the same thing. they overdose on it, so it is much stronger than heroin. we have the heroin problem butut now we have the fentanyl problem