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we start with one of the biggest threats facing our nation, the fentanyl crisis. it s a fox news alert. fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. an opioid 100 times more potent than heroin. there are millions of these dangerous fake pills out there and they are killing thousands of americans. the lethal drug expected to kill 80,000 americans this year alone. for context, that would mean more americans killed by fentanyl in a single year than killed in the entire vietnam war. john: all stemming from cracks in the southern border, a breeding ground for drug cartels. exactly what the house homeland security committee will talk about in a hearing moments from now. sandra: social media plays a huge role in the cartels marketing. teens are buying the drugs online often not knowing that they are laced with the fentanyl. and sometimes the drug is even disguised as rainbow colored candy. the epidemic is hitting neighbors, friends, famili ....
Day, a big one, something people would pay attention to. not sure why we are not paying the same attention to this. sandra: our next guest, his 20-year-old daughter, alexandra, was found dead in her bedroom taking a drug. alexandra s father matt joins us now, the president of the non-profit organization drug induced homicide. thanks so much for being here. i can t imagine these days get any better for you and your family suffering through this. welcome to you. thank you, thank you for having me. sandra: a question many parents are asking when they see stories like yours, tragic stories like yours, why are these drug dealers getting away with murder? well, it really starts at the local level. when law enforcement shows up at one of these drug deaths, the very first thing that needs to be done, treated as a crime, treated, a crime scene, needs to ....
Job of protecting their customers. so that absolutely is a critical role in this. it s far too easy for anybody, particularly young people, to go on social media these days, literally as easy as ordering a pizza and have arguably one of the world s most deadly chemicals delivered to your house in minutes. sandra: matt, our hearts are with you and praying for your family and all that you have gone through, and we continue to look at these beautiful pictures of your daughter and we hope that you find some peace in your mission to change those lives and to improve this situation in this country. thank you for joining us. i want to remind your viewers of one last thing, to reiterate. fentanyl is now the number one cause of death for americans age 18-45. this should be a major topic on the debate stage come this election, no doubt about it. sandra: we covered a lot here, matt. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. thank you. ....
Be sealed off and treated as and investigated as a homicide. we are not having that right now. the bulk of the deaths, most are ruled as accidental overdoses. so the first thing is, is recognizing that there s a crime here, somebody delivered a poison that resulted in somebody s death. and then on top of that most of our states, california leading the way, have terrible laws in terms of holding these death dealers accountable. so we need better laws to back up law enforcement and we need law enforcement to investigate the cases criminally to go after the death dealers and get them off the streets. sandra: looking at beautiful pictures of your daughter, life gone way too soon, 20 years old and now you are trying to, as you just mentioned, change the laws in california. you tweeted out in june, matt, the california attorney general turned down an invitation to ....
Her father matt capelueto wants harsher penalties. but griff jenkins as hearing gets underway. republicans on this committee are calling this the second phase of their investigation into dhs secretary mayorkas failure at the border to secure it. and it comes amidst just a startling number, officials from dhs, dea, cbp and ice, and cbp says they seized 1.1 billion potential doses of lethal fentanyl in fiscal year 2022, up 200%, compared to years 2019 and 2020 combined, and we expect to hear from steven kagan, saying this, the illicit collaboration between the chinese and the mexican cartels have a complex ecosystem fueling money laundering and narcotics traffic ....