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For context, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that two pounds of fentanyl have been seized in the northern border region this year.
That represents approximately 0.0074 per cent of the 27,000 pounds seized overall, according to the agency's figures.
Those numbers are staggering! Good heavens, but I'm amazed they let any of us bad-asses even get close to crossing the border! Can you even imagine how many pounds of Kinder eggs and ketchup chips have made it across? I bet way more than Mexico!
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Republican lawmakers have been complaining more frequently about the northern border in the context of unauthorized migration, but the numbers remain a tiny portion of the U.S. total.
A mere 2.7 per cent of people stopped trying to enter the U.S. from Canada since the start of the 2022 fiscal year were actually trying to enter between crossings, according to U.S. data available earlier this year.
What isn't reported here is that 75% of those people probably apologized for doing so.