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To be clear, America’s opioid epidemic doesn’t stem from migrants coming over the border.

As Gaby noted earlier this year:

The overwhelming majority of fentanyl seized by Customs and Border Protection — more than 90 percent — is smuggled through official border crossings by US citizens, not by migrants making unauthorized border crossings.

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