Notice the never ending rants from the orange crowd? as the truth becomes known, we find that the greatest force of the Fentanyl tragedy is the republican party under trump...

The rotten stuff is not brought in by those walking over the border, but in trucks cars and buses driving via check points.. and what will stop it.. the gadgets sitting in warehouses not used because trump republcans will not fund the use of the unites to detect and capture the drugs as the driver into the USA... so which republicans are getting the most pay from the drug cartels.. the obvious most apparent and motivated is trump of course, but is he smart enough to demand congress take no action to fund thier use? doubtful...

So the need is clear, every member of the so called republican party needs to be removed and replaced by someone of any party who will make America the concern and not the pocket of themselves or the orange head man...

Read the excerpts from this one article, then follow the link and read all the information and then read the little known facts via the video and the last page news of the the problem...

GET RID OF ALL THE CULT...


Some truth is needed to start any meaningful discussion..

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/border-fentanyl-scanners-unused-congress-provided-no-money-rcna141432


Customs and Border Protection has spent millions on the most up-to-date high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the southern U.S. border, but many scanners are sitting in warehouses unused because Congress hasn’t appropriated funds to install them, acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller told NBC News.

Miller gave NBC News a tour of a port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, where half of all fentanyl seized at the border is stopped on its way into the U.S. from Mexico.

Officers in Nogales have found fentanyl hidden inside crates of Coca-Cola, where bottles are painted black to look like liquid, sawed in half and filled with fentanyl pills; they’ve confiscated millions in fentanyl pills stuffed inside the water barrel of a commercial bus’ bathroom; they’ve even found fentanyl in cars carrying young children in the back in car seats. More than 95% of fentanyl seized at the border, Miller said, is actually brought into the U.S. in personal vehicles.

The new technology, known as Non-Intrusive Inspection, or NII, lets CBP X-ray a percentage of cars and trucks as they pass through the massive U-shaped screeners, which look something like car washes. Drivers don’t have to get out of their vehicles to be screened, which means traffic can keep flowing through border checkpoints with fewer interruptions.

But some of the equipment that has been purchased hasn’t yet been put into use, because Congress hasn’t allocated the funding needed to install it. The money to install the screeners was in the supplemental funding request Republicans blocked.

“We do have technology that’s in the warehouse that has been tested. But we need approximately $300 million [to] actually put the technology in the ground,” Miller said. “It’s extremely frustrating.”

Exactly how much equipment is being stored and where is unknown. The contracts to buy the machines totaled in the tens of millions.

to install them, CBP says.NBC News
A CBP official speaking on background said the Biden administration’s “supplemental funding request would provide funding for civil works projects to allow for NII systems procured with previous-year funds to be installed.”

At the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, which has the new machines installed, Miller met officers watching scans of commercial trucks as they drove through the machines. But in the vast majority of border crossings by vehicles in Nogales and elsewhere, officers still depend on their intuition to tell them when something seems off.

Artificial intelligence would be likely to make fentanyl scanning more efficient, and CBP would like to use it more, Miller said.

Notice the never-ending rants from the orange crowd?

$2.53 billion for carrying out CBP’s “five-year plan.” The five-year plan is a rolling strategy document that includes a number of priorities for POE modernization.
The plan calls for additional vehicle and biometric screenings for narcotics and other security threats, filling staffing vacancies at ports, and creating a modern and integrated information technology system.
$430 million for additional physical equipment and other infrastructure improvements.

Fact Sheet: Border Funding in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation
November 30, 2021
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, or H.R. 3684, a $1.2 trillion bill that was the result of extended bipartisan negotiations in the House and Senate and represents the largest infrastructure legislation that has been enacted since 2015.
Much of the focus on this bipartisan infrastructure bill has rightfully highlighted its significant investments into American roads and bridges, the electrical grid, the water supply, and access to broadband internet.
However, in addition to these elements, the legislation also includes billions of dollars for border infrastructure that has not drawn as much attention, including provisions designed to modernize ports of entry and better resource local communities who are assisting in processing arriving migrants.
These investments could play a major role in creating a more orderly, humane, and secure border.

Background
Over the last twenty years, Congress has invested significant funding into border security, particularly between official land Ports of Entry (POEs). This has created a border that is more secure than ever before.
Currently, the U.S. Border Patrol has more agents than ever and has increasingly sophisticated technology at its disposal, which it can use to track and arrest individuals attempting to unlawfully enter the U.S. between crossing points.
While challenges remain in terms of increased flows of migrants from Central America and elsewhere, the result has been a dramatic increase in effectiveness — the proportion of unlawful entrants who are apprehended has risen significantly. DHS estimates that the percentage of individuals who were apprehended attempting to cross the border without authorization rose from 32.5% in 2003 to 69.6 % in 2018 (the last year for which data is available).

But as we continue to invest in the Border Patrol and technology, other important aspects of U.S. border policy have gone under-resourced.
POEs along the border were designed an average of 40 years ago and often remain dilapidated, inefficient, and in dire need of modernization.
These problems are contributing to security vulnerabilities: Most cross-border drug smuggling occurs at POEs, but the security infrastructure in the ports is so poor that only 2% of private vehicles and 15% of commercial vehicles are scanned using non-intrusive imaging systems for narcotics upon entry.

Beyond these security issues, the land ports are also not built or staffed for today’s border traffic, lacking the necessary lanes and infrastructure to allow for the smooth functioning of cross-border trade and commerce.
Traders and travelers alike face long wait times at major ports, impacting economic productivity and hampering the tourism that is the lifeblood of many border communities.
Today’s ports also do not have the capacity to process all arriving asylum seekers, forcing many desperate migrants to attempt to enter between crossing points.
This places an additional burden on Border Patrol agents, many of whom are forced to spend the majority of their time processing asylum seekers during times of influx.

Border allocations in the bipartisan infrastructure bill
The Infrastructure and Jobs Act provides $3.6 billion to modernization projects at border stations and land ports of entry, which is allocated as follows:

$2.53 billion for carrying out CBP’s “five-year plan.” The five-year plan is a rolling strategy document that includes a number of priorities for POE modernization.
The plan calls for additional vehicle and biometric screenings for narcotics and other security threats, filling staffing vacancies at ports, and creating a modern and integrated information technology system.
The plan also calls for a series of measures to reduce wait times and increase the efficiency of trade and travel, including improving and expanding trusted traveler and trade programs.
This represents a critical investment that will help make the border more secure while facilitating more efficient trade and travel.
$430 million for “feasibility studies.” Each new land POE infrastructure project conceived by CBP (including those in the five-year plan), must first be forwarded to the General Services Administration (GSA) for consideration. GSA conducts a study — called a feasibility study — to consider whether the project is reasonable and to assess necessary funding.
Currently, there is a backlog of projects awaiting GSA studies, and the process can take several years.
The additional funding will address the backlogs at GSA and expedite the process, allowing more POE projects in the pipeline to proceed expeditiously.
$210 million for improving roads at ports of entry.
Many of the current land POEs were not designed to handle the amount of vehicle traffic that they currently receive, leading some areas to become degraded and causing CBP to close off some lanes, lengthening wait times.
This funding for much-needed road repairs will allow for the reopening of many of the closed-off lanes and generally improve degraded roads, facilitating the smoother flow of cars and trucks through POEs.
This funding is far more than is typically allocated to POEs for road repairs in annual appropriations bills, representing a significant effort to tackle the problem.
Some of the funding under this section could also be used for re-acquiring crossing points that have been leased to local entities.
$430 million for additional physical equipment and other infrastructure improvements.
The bill provides significant additional funding for other infrastructure projects at POEs.
CBP and GSA are both required to submit a detailed plan to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees of how they intend to use all funding made available under the bill. There are a range of necessary projects this funding is likely to cover, including a series of new construction and modernization projects that are already underway.
It could also be used to respond to a recent Biden administration directive to create additional capacity at ports for processing asylum seekers.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-border-funding-in-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-legislation/