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He was my firstborn and I never knew what love was or that my heart had that kind of love in me until I met him. And so he, you know, it was just, it was a shock. It was blindsided. And my lesson to everybody is I assure you this could happen to you. So that's what I'm doing. Crusading.
And you have not stopped since the RNC. I mean, you have been busy crisscrossing the country, raising awareness for this important issue, and educate our audience on how fentanyl actually gets into the country. Where does it start? I know much has been made of China's role in this, gets smuggled in through the southern border and elsewhere.
Tell us how it gets into America and how it ends up poisoning our children.
So it starts in China where these factories make illicit fentanyl, the precursor chemicals. It's then shipped to Mexico to the cartels where who knows who, you know, not a chemist that works for, you know, Merck or Pfizer.
It's somebody who probably, you know, has no idea what they're doing, sprinkles it into a bunch of blue press powder and they press it with the exact markings of pharmaceutical pills. From there, it comes over our open borders. And, you know, I think you mentioned that under Joe Biden, they were seizing about 2,000 pounds a month. And that's not nearly what comes over here.
That's the tip of the iceberg, the very tip. So, you know, it comes over through that. It also comes over through the de minimis loophole. President Trump just put triple tariffs on Timu and Sheen because anything under $800 does not have to be inspected when it comes from overseas.
And, you know, Timu and Sheen being somewhat social media, kind of like a little bit of an Amazon one, you know, one's for fashion, one's like Amazon. They have private senders shipping things over. And fentanyl bricks were coming over that way. And so that's it just, you know, those are the two ways, the main ways it comes over, but it's still coming over in ways we don't know.
And that's what we're getting to the bottom of. And there's a stockpile over here. So it's not going to stop all of a sudden. Multi-billion dollar corporations called the cartels don't shut down overnight and neither do the thousands of factory workers in China. So this is a business. Make no mistake. These are CEOs making a lot of money and they don't intend to shut down. anytime soon.
So we still need to fight every single day.
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