Baja California i Sonora, Neighboring states of California and Arizona, are the points by which Mexican cartels send more fentanyl to the United States across the border, according to the report Fentanyl and Analogs Federal Traffic Trends and Patterns prepared by the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC).
“The most common border ports of entry were in the Arizona District and the Southern District of California. Eleven international messengers (or mules, a term used to refer to smugglers in small numbers) were confiscated within the United States, after to cross the border, “he says.
the United States Judgments Commission was able to identify approximately 5.1 percent of fentanyl violators as international messengers or mules.
However, it was documented that among the offenders convicted in fiscal year 2019, fentanyl and other drugs had different traffic patterns, for example, over the internet.
“Fentanyl was more likely to enter the United States across the U.S.-Mexico border, while fentanyl analogs were more likely to be purchased directly over the Internet or the dark Internet, often from from China, and send by international mail or express parcel services “, the document abounds in this regard.
According to the USSC, most illicit fentanyl trafficked in the United States arrive first in Mexico, where it is cut short with other drugs, such as heroin, Before smuggling through ports of entry along the border through pedestrians, private vehicles and commercial vehicles under the direction of Mexican drug cartels.
The purest and most powerful fentanyl, he noted, “enters the United States at international airports, international mail facilities and urgent courier services.”
The health problem posed by fentanyl in the United States, according to the Sentencing Commission, is so serious that during fiscal year 2019 up to 74.7 percent of those sentenced for drug cases where there were deaths or bodily injuries serious was for this drug and its analogues.
In this sense, according to the DEA (Administration for Drug Control, for its acronym in English) illicit fentanyl produced in clandestine laboratories, mainly in Mexico, and trafficked in the United States in the form of powders and pills is primarily responsible for fueling the current opioid crisis that is sweeping the country and which, by 2020, had already left more people dead from overdoses, than military casualties in the Vietnam War.
MILLENNIUM published that the shipments of fentanyl across the border by Mexican cartels, mainly the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, they have been on the rise.
Fentanyl seizures on the Mexican-U.S. border were found to have increased 361 percent so far in fiscal year 2021, compared to 2020, according to data from the Customs and Protection Bureau. Border (CBP) i if the figures from October to February 2021 are compared with those for this period in 2019, the increase is 402 percent.