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Donald Trump accused of falsely vilifying migrants for surge in US fentanyl deaths (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Former head of US border security says claim ‘terribly misleading’ and statistics show nine of 10 convicted traffickers are US citizens

A former head of US border security has accused Donald Trump of “exploiting” the pain of the opioid epidemic to wrongly vilify migrants as responsible for the surge in American deaths from fentanyl during recent years.

But the Trump campaign is expected to double down on the deception now that the vice-president, Kamala Harris, whom Republicans describe as Joe Biden’s “border czar” and accuse of inaction over a surge of illegal immigration, is likely to be the Democratic presidential candidate in November.

Gil Kerlikowske, who led Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during the Obama administration following five years as the White House chief of national drug control policy, said Republicans know there is no truth to accusations that migrants crossing the Mexican border illegally are carrying the bulk of fentanyl sold in the US. Yet that was a line again pushed at last week’s Republican convention. Official statistics show that nine in 10 convicted fentanyl traffickers are US citizens.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It is shocking, scary, how republicans just eat these lies up without even a smidge of consideration.

I was recently reminded that it's even worse than I thought.

I took my son in to have bloodwork done recently. The woman who did it was a wizard with the needle. 3 different hospital teams had recently struggled to find the vein, she all but tossed it into his arm and got it on the very first poke.

So we were chatting about that, and somehow I brought up some difficulties we've had with his supplemental insurance recently (he has special needs) to which she said, "that's because they are cancelling it for everyone else to be sure they can give it to the illegals."

The conversation cooled down a little after that.

(I'm fairly sure my son's issue with it is a paperwork problem, and likely one caused by me. I'm 100% sure it's not that they cancelled it to give it to "the illegals.")

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Every time someone pretends the shit-ass healthcare in the US is Democrats' or immigrants' fault it makes my blood boil. Republicans have done every single thing they can to keep healthcare fucked up and you can be sure they will keep doing so. But sure, it's people's fault who are trying to find a better life and who do the jobs that people like that nurse think she is above.