Governor Bill Lee announced Tuesday that in early 2022, he will send approximately 50 additional members of the Tennessee National Guard troops to the Texas border to help with the growing drug crisis. This from tennesseestar.com.
“An open border has far-reaching consequences that are fueling a drug crisis impacting both our national security and the safety of our state,” Governor Lee said. “I have authorized additional Tennessee Guard support at our Southern border as we look to address drug trafficking at the source.”
Customs and Border Patrol reports that over five tons – 10,520 pounds – of the deadly drug fentanyl has been confiscated at the southern border this fiscal year. The agency notes that a lethal dose for most people is 2-3 milligrams, meaning that the amount of fentanyl intercepted from October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021, alone is enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States more than four times over.
In July of last year, Lee visited the more than 300 Tennesseans already stationed at the border.
During that time, Lee noted that the drug crisis had escalated as a threat to public safety, to a threat to United States’ sovereignty.
“What I saw at the border is unsustainable for our country and should be number one priority for national security, Tennessee will always step up and serve, but we need immediate reinforcements, like a finished border wall, to ensure our men and women in uniform have the tools they need to do their job,” he said.
The Tennessee Star reported earlier this week on an update of drugs being brought into the United States from Mexico. In Yuma, Arizona, a Lawfully Admitted Permanent Resident (LAPR) was found to have $10,000 dollars and four different types of illegal drugs in her car.
Earlier this year, The Star reported that Drug Enforcement in Texas said cartels had been doing anything to move drugs into the United States.
While there were 92,183 overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2020, Houston Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux said that the cartels “don’t care about what’s going on in America, all they care about is the dollar bill and figuring out how to get their drugs across the border. And that’s the unfortunate thing. We battle everyday to stop that for America.”
It’s not surprising this information is not reported by the leftist mass media in America. They’ll do anything to hide democrat misleadership and their obvious intent to “transform” America into a third-world sh*t hole. The media must have big hopes for themselves under the New World Order behind all this.
God speed to Governor Lee and the Tennessee National Guard troops. Thank you for your service.
