Statement: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' border policy is "personally responsible" for fentanyl crossing the border.
In their failed push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, some House Republicans made the fentanyl crisis a central part of their effort to prove he willfully shirked his duty to secure and monitor the U.S.-Mexico border, through which flow much of the synthetic opioids consumed in the United States.
In a Jan. 19 impeachment hearing, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, said Mayorkas and his border policy is "personally responsible" for fentanyl, a dangerously powerful and cheaply made synthetic opioid, coming across the southern border.
Fentanyl “comes from China, and they make it in Mexico, and they kill our children here. Two hundred thousand — more than Vietnam, World War II,” he said. “I have seen it personally, the destruction it does every five minutes. It is a fentanyl superhighway, and (Secretary Mayorkas') border policy is personally responsible for it.”
McCaul, who represents a district that stretches from Austin to Houston, has sought to tie Mayorkas to the fentanyl overdose death toll in the U.S. during several other media appearances, including in a Jan. 28 "Fox News Sunday" appearance.
"200 million people (are) dead now, thanks to fentanyl poisoning that this one man (Mayorkas) is responsible for," McCaul said. (A spokesperson for McCaul told us he meant to say 200,000 people have died of fentanyl...
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