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Senator Collins: The Fentanyl Crisis "Begins and Ends in China'

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Date: May 16, 2023
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Foreign Affairs Drugs Criminal Justice

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As one Department of Homeland Security official recently testified, the fentanyl crisis "begins and ends in China.' Many precursor chemicals originate in China, and Chinese criminal organizations launder the drug cartels' money and source the pill pressers that facilitate the distribution of this deadly poison.

Just last month, employees at a restaurant in Auburn, Maine, opened a crate expecting to find mugs they had ordered. Instead, they found 14 kilograms of fentanyl -- that is enough to kill five times the population of the entire state of Maine. Thankfully, the employees called local law enforcement, who seized the fentanyl, undoubtedly saving many lives.

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What specifically is the State Department doing to deter China from continuing to send to Mexico the precursor ingredients and the pill presses for fentanyl that eventually makes its way into the United States?

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