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Rep. Barry Moore: human toll of border crisis 'continues to escalate'

February 6, 2023

Washington D.C. - Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) spoke on Newsmax's Saturday Report with host Lidia Curanaj about this week's House Judiciary Committee hearing revealing the devastating human toll of the border crisis. Moore discussed how the fentanyl epidemic plaguing American communities does not discriminate against race, gender, or party affiliation. He referenced the 2018 federal government shutdown instituted when Democrats' blocked President Trump's $4 billion request to continue construction of a border wall, contrasting that with the over-25 times that sum the government has spent to defend Ukraine's border.

"President Trump asked for $4 billion to secure our border and finish the wall, and they said, 'oh that's too much money,' the Democrats voted no. He was fought every step of the way, and yet we've spent $100 billion securing Ukraine's border against Russia, and we have an invasion on [our] southern border,” said Moore. “The 2,200 pounds of fentanyl we're seizing on the southern border [per month] is more than we seized in all of 2018, and Sheriff Dannels said himself, in four decades of working that border, the most manageable he's ever seen it was in 2018 under President Trump. He said it's the worst he's ever seen it today, and it continues to escalate."

 

Since July, border seizures of fentanyl have averaged 2,200 pounds a month, meaning U.S. authorities are confiscating more fentanyl in a single month than they did during all of 2018. Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Arizona, was one of the witnesses in this week's hearing.

Rep. Moore's interview on Newsmax can be seen here: High-res | Twitter

Details on Part Two of the committee's border crisis hearing will be announced soon.

 

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