{"id":337469,"date":"2025-12-10T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/my-state-is-the-fentanyl-funnel-for-the-rest-of-america-trump-is-turning-his-back-on-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:32:44","slug":"my-state-is-the-fentanyl-funnel-for-the-rest-of-america-trump-is-turning-his-back-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=337469","title":{"rendered":"My State is the Fentanyl Funnel for the Rest of America. Trump is Turning His Back on It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Kris Mayes is the Attorney General for Arizona. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Arizona is on the front lines of a deadly drug crisis. As a border state attorney general, I\u2019m alarmed by the Trump administration\u2019s actions at our southern border. Or perhaps I should say inaction, if reports by The New York Times, Reuters and other outlets are any guide. \u00a0The federal government is effectively\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=99bc11ebf9&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abandoning its fight<\/a>\u00a0against drug and human trafficking as it prioritizes immigration enforcement. Federal drug prosecutions are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=049d8a0b3d&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">down 10%<\/a>\u00a0through September this year, compared with the same nine-month period last year. Teams that once pursued child-exploitation cases are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=5d1d706fb2&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">being discarded<\/a>. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoints along Arizona state Route 82, one of the major passages used by drug traffickers from Nogales, in southern Arizona, have gone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=2af66bdd9a&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unattended, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>\u00a0in October. And the number of people charged with money laundering has dropped by almost a quarter, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=b953259031&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lowest level<\/a>\u00a0since Donald Trump was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=72a4b5453f&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">operating casinos in the 1990s<\/a>.<strong>My state is the fentanyl funnel for the rest of the nation:\u00a0<\/strong>More than half of all the fentanyl seized in this country every year is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=624a3c121d&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confiscated in Arizona<\/a>. During my tenure as attorney general, Arizona state law enforcement has\u00a0seized more than 27 million fentanyl pills. In recent months, the Arizona attorney general\u2019s office has announced more than 20 years in prison sentences for drug traffickers, with tens of thousands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=dba49c71b8&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fentanyl pills<\/a>\u00a0seized as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=4bb5bdafef&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">part of those cases<\/a>.Now is not the time to let up on drug-fighting efforts, particularly because a new drug is making its way into our communities:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=aed20f00be&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carfentanil<\/a>, an analog of fentanyl, is 100 times stronger than fentanyl itself.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=4e49c6ede8&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cocaine<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=70e09435b3&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">methamphetamine<\/a>\u00a0also remain dangers to public health and safety. \u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NaK1ToYHSWMfhYx1YBJuOdWcxxqwlVOdlFpzPfDenZWkn4AybJ53UdNYWYqKjAQRfMFD9Ju-sXzBkM1tZfExW2A6FacMDsxCPFSjukli9Jr9iNx9JcEa2sFlX3gxabnK89wzcf-0CiC15hcFCxr2LXDHvbHmnTM_44=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206\/images\/605ef63f-4c41-ed5b-bcc5-b0deaee908cc.png\" width=\"564\"\/><em>Photographs of seized fentanyl, weapons, and other illicit drugs presented at The Nogales-Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, A.Z., on Feb. 28, 2023. Kitra Cahana \/ The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>We have made so much progress in our fight against the Mexican drug cartels. But Trump is dropping the ball. His recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=66e77cb1c1&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pardon of the former president of Honduras<\/a>\u00a0defies logic and his own past pronouncements. Prosecutors said Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=e0b2434120&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flooded more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States<\/a>. He even bragged that he would \u201cstuff the drugs up the gringos\u2019 noses.\u201d Yet Trump granted him clemency, as he has for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=af66f8b713&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other drug kingpins<\/a>, even though the president has cited the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=f1a378e333&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flow of contraband drugs<\/a>\u00a0as one of his reasons for implementing tariffs and for launching boat strikes in the Caribbean.Instead of keeping up the fight against illegal drugs here at home and working with states like Arizona to ensure that communities across the country are safe, Trump has redirected the federal law enforcement apparatus against American cities. Instead of focusing on Mexican drug cartels for the past few months, federal agents in Chicago were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=19b79fe2b0&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">zip-tying American citizens<\/a>, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=1400518d30&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">innocent children<\/a>. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=c3ce0680e2&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">body-slammed<\/a>\u00a0a 79-year-old man outside of his business in September.More than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained and held by immigrations agents,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=144a19d851&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ProPublica has found<\/a>. Even more worrying, almost 75% of people detained by ICE this year have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=49ea45b5cf&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no criminal conviction<\/a>\u00a0history whatsoever, the Cato Institute reports. Contrast that with the fact that some ICE recruits have shown up for training with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=f736d353fe&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disqualifying criminal backgrounds<\/a>\u00a0of their own.While the number of illegal border crossings is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=ed06cbd6e6&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">down this year<\/a>, most drugs come across the U.S. border at legal ports of entry, primarily in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=3b2a016c3b&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vehicles driven by U.S. citizens<\/a>. That\u2019s why Arizona needs more Drug Enforcement Administration agents, as I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=e3b04d014e&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have repeatedly<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=5f4bc35160&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called for<\/a>\u00a0this year. We need the agents from Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI assigned to protect our communities to be able to focus on that work \u2014 and not to be pulled from their missions to chase migrants working as maids and landscapers. And we can\u2019t have CBP abandoning Route 82.<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=c4ad59d7b0&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More than 40% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0personally know someone who has died from a drug overdose, a RAND study found last year. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have wreaked havoc on American communities. There is a risk to American neighborhoods and families if the flow of fentanyl across our southern border is not stemmed because of a lack of focus by federal law enforcement.As Arizona\u2019s top law enforcement officer, it\u2019s my job to protect our state and the rest of the country from the spread of fentanyl and other deadly drugs over our southern border. We in Arizona are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=00e16ee516&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doing that work<\/a>\u00a0every day that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azag.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206&amp;id=9595211c01&amp;e=dab4bfb4c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I am in office<\/a>. But<strong>\u00a0Arizona cannot do it alone. We need the federal government to do its job.<\/strong>The president should do what he promised during his campaign to help states like Arizona protect citizens: by going after the really bad guys, criminal gang members, drug dealers and cartel members \u2014 not innocent Americans. It\u2019s time to focus precious law enforcement resources on the actual criminals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-bottom:24px\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:10px\">Discover more from Blog for Arizona<\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Mayes is the Attorney General for Arizona. Arizona is on the front lines of a deadly drug crisis. As a border state attorney general, I\u2019m alarmed by the Trump administration\u2019s actions at our southern border. 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