Beijing and Mexico’s deadliest drug cartels are operating along an unholy alliance with the twin purpose of making vast profits and simultaneously weakening the United States. The effects are clearer to see than ever before in America’s cities.
In Philadelphia, any semblance of law and order is rapidly vanishing as open-air drug markets are exploding, flooding the city with heroin, meth, and fentanyl that has made its way from the southern border.
According to a report by Sara Carter of Fox News’ Hannity, Philadelphia’s drug problem is particularly strong in the Kensington neighborhood, east of Temple University and north of Old City.
The outlet notes that “Carter recounted traveling through block after block of the neighborhood, prominently marked by the El train that forms its proverbial backbone, witnessing untold numbers of people shooting up unknown illicit substances.”
“Just so you can get a perspective here, 95% of the narcotics here in Philadelphia, according to law enforcement sources I’ve spoken to today, are coming from the Sinaloa Cartel,” said Carter, adding that “This fentanyl is coming across the border. Those fentanyl-precursor chemicals are coming from none other than China. They are coming to our streets and they are literally paralyzing our communities.”
One female drug addict with whom Carter spoke even acknowledged that many of those ensnared in drugs in Philadelphia have essentially become “zombies.”
“Yeah, we are people. We are, but we’re also zombies. We’re the living dead out here. It’s terrible,” the woman said.
In addition, Carter explained, many children are exposed to drug addicts as they make their way to and from school.
The current crisis affecting the Kensington neighborhood is a resurgence of sorts after the area recovered from a previous peak in the late 2010s. In 2017, the city caught the nation’s attention when it cleared out thousands of addicts who were concentrated in a three-quarter-mile railroad viaduct along Gurney Street — a zone known as “the tracks.”
While Philadelphia is geographically in the northeast, its current plight is a result of what has been happening at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Residents and local government officials in the border town of Yuma, Arizona, told Fox News that it is the Mexican cartels, not the U.S. government, that are in control of the border.
Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines called this a “national security issue” and argued that “unless this situation changes and we take back control from the cartels, for the trafficking coming across our border, it will only get worse.”
Lines said that cartel-operated human-smuggling operations take advantage of the migrant surge to exhaust Border Patrol officials, who are stretched thin. Migrants who cannot afford to pay the cartel fee across the border can instead pay by carrying drugs with them or by working for the criminals.
Notably, the human-smuggling aspect of business along the border has increased significantly — bringing in $13 billion in July (compared to only $500 million in 2018). Moreover, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported a 206-percent increase in seized fentanyl along the southern border since 2020.
A professor at George Mason University told The New York Times that border-crossing fees for migrants can be anything from $4,000 to $20,000.
Derek Maltz, the former chief of special operations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), spoke with Just the News and told the outlet that the Biden White House is in possession of strong evidence showing that China supplies the cartels with the ingredients for fentanyl. According to Maltz, the administration knows where the production labs are located in Mexico.
“We have synthetic drugs being made in these labs in Mexico. We know where a lot of the labs are. We have to get way more aggressive, and we have to work with the Mexicans and hold them accountable to shut down these labs,” Maltz said in his interview, adding that “We also must shut down the chemical flow, the precursors coming out of China. That’s why the cartels now are producing such large amounts of these synthetic drugs.”
In the eyes of the former DEA official, China is waging “unrestricted warfare” against the United States, unleashing a fentanyl epidemic to “kill our future generation.” Moreover, per Maltz, Beijing is “using the cartels as a proxy to destroy and destabilize our country.”
In his view, the cartels should be declared foreign terrorist organizations in order to give the government a broader range of resources to combat the fentanyl trade.
The estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is that, in 2021, over 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. This amounts to one overdose death every five minutes.
We know the parties responsible for flooding American streets with these drugs. But is the federal government willing to take decisive action?
After all, it’s the Biden White House’s open-border policy that is allowing the inflow of drugs and people across the southern border. If the border were simply secured, that alone would reduce the fentanyl crisis by leaps and bounds.
And can Biden be trusted to play hardball with China when evidence of his cozy relationship with Beijing continues to pour in?
As The New American’s R. Cort Kirkwood writes, another email from Hunter Biden’s laptop confirms that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings in China — a revelation with serious national security implications.
It’s certainly comforting to know that the Biden family has been getting rich thanks to the very foreign powers that are engineering America’s downfall.
