DHS warns Mexican-produced drugs like fentanyl likely to kill more Americans than any other threat
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The Department of Homeland Security is warning that drugs like fentanyl coming into the U.S. from Mexico are likely to kill more Americans than other threats.
"During the past year, U.S.-based traffickers have become more involved in the mixing and pressing of fentanyl, contributing to more lethal mixes of this already deadly drug," it says. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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There were over 100,000 overdose deaths last year, with 75% tied to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which is produced in Mexico using Chinese precursors and then transported across the southern land border. The drug is fatal in small doses and is often pressed into fake pills so the user does not know what they are ingesting.