Baja California Y Sonora, neighboring states of California and Arizona, are the points causing Mexican cartels to send more fentanyl to the United States across the border, according to the report. Fentanyl and Analogues Federal Traffic Trends and Patterns Prepared by the United States Convicting Commission (USSC).
“The most common border ports were in the district of Arizona and the southern district of California. Eleven international couriers (or mules, a term used to refer to smugglers in small numbers) were arrested in the United States after crossing the border, ”he explains.
The Convicting Commission of the United States was able to identify about 5.1 percent of fentanyl offenders as international couriers or mules.
However, it was documented that among criminals convicted in fiscal year 2019, fentanyl and other drugs showed different patterns of trade, for example over the Internet.
“Fentanyl previously entered the United States through the US-Mexico border, while fentanyl analogues were previously purchased directly over the Internet or the dark Internet, often from China, and shipped by international mail or express parcel services,” the document is in this respect rich.
According to the USSC, most of the illegal fentanyl traded in the United States first reaches Mexico, where it is often you cut with other drugs, such as heroin, before smuggling pedestrians, private and commercial vehicles through the entry ports along the border under the leadership of Mexican drug cartels.
The purest and most potent fentanyl, he noted, “enters the United States at international airports, international mail facilities and courier services.”
The health problem that fentanyl represents in the United States is so serious, according to the Sentencing Commission, that during fiscal year 2019, up to 74.7 percent of convicts for drug cases involving deaths or serious bodily harm were due to this drug and its analogues.
In this sense, according to the DEA (Drug Control Administration), illegal fentanyl produced in clandestine laboratories, primarily in Mexico, and smuggled into the United States in powder and pill form, is the leading cause of the current opioid crisis that country and which by 2020 had already left more deaths from overdoses than military casualties in the Vietnam War.
MILLENNIUM published that shipments of fentanyl across the border by Mexican cartels, mainly the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, have increased.
Fentanyl seizures at the US-Mexico border so far are up 361 percent in fiscal year 2021, compared to 2020, according to data from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In English) and If the figures from October to February 2021 are compared with those for that period in 2019, the increase is 402 percent.