US President Donald Trump said Chinese Thursday fentanyl Continue to “pour” in the United States from Canada and Mexico – despite data on the northern border suggesting the opposite.
Trump complained on social networks that Chinese airlines refusing to accept deliveries of new Boeing aircraft to protest The administration of massive prices on China.
“And, by the way, Fentanyl continues to pay in our country from China, through Mexico and Canada, killing hundreds of thousands of our inhabitants, and that better stop, now!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The last side one day came after Trump publicly relaunched his desire to make Canada the “51st state” of the United States, Provide the decline in Canadian party leaders In the last days of Federal electoral campaign.
In March, Trump slapped prices across the economy in Canada, connecting tasks to the flow of people and fentanyl through the American border. He partially interrupted the samples a few days later, exempting from the products sold under the agreement of the Canadian Mexico States on free trade (CUSMA).
Canada has made more than a billion dollars in new investments in border security and hired a fentanyl tsar, Kevin Brosseau, to supervise multi-aging and cross-border efforts to combat fentanyl trade.
Canadian police have also suppressed fentanyl producers in the country, especially Three drug laboratories that have been slaughtered in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia Earlier this month.
The RCMP said that while announcing the latter bust that there was “no evidence” that the drugs produced in these laboratories, including fentanyl, were intended in the United States but would not reveal how the investigators took this determination.
A recent report on Canada’s criminal intelligence services said organized crime groups involved in the manufacture of fentanyl, operating mainly in British Columbia and Ontario, are actively engaged in Latin American drug cartels. Although the report found that participation in fentanyl has increased by 42% since 2019, he added that these groups were also linked to American criminal organizations with traffic arms in Canada.
The conservative chief Pierre Hairy has sworn in perpetuity for compulsory perpetuity for large -scale fentanyl traffickers if his party formed the government in the elections on Monday. He and Liberal chief Mark Carney promised additional investments at land borders and sea ports to intercept the medication.
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Carney has also said that his government would help crown prosecutors to continue “more complex drug trafficking and organized criminal offenses” and allow the police to search and seize fentanyl in Canada after a letter with a general mandate.
American data shows that a tiny amount of fentanyl is entered on the Canadian-American border, less than one percent of all fentanyl intercepted by the American authorities.
The latest figures from the American Customs and Front Protection AgencyReleased last week, 81 grams of fentanyl were seized on the Canadian border in March, the second lowest monthly figure so far this year.
Until now, almost 5.5 kilograms have been met in the United States from the United States. The previous exercise saw 19.5 kilograms seized.
The RCMP said that there was no proof of large-scale drug movement in Canada in the United States and the latest annual threats to the US Intelligence Community Does not mention Canada in its section on fetanyl trafficking.
“Canadians have enabled many fentanyl to come to the country. It is not a defense to say that others came from Mexico because far too from Mexico, said US vice-president JD Vance last month, saying that Canada was not” serious to stop the drug trade “.
Fentanyl crises on the American -Mexican border also decreased, according to CBP data, falling below 1,000 pounds (453 kilograms) during each of the first three months of Trump – the first time since 2022.
Until now, this exercise, 3,039 kilograms of fentanyl have been seized at the southern United States border, a drop of almost 30% compared to the 4,309 kilograms at this point in the previous year.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this week there had been “success” on the Canadian American border, citing a significant drop in the number of people apprehended, but did not mention fentanyl.
Leavitt told journalists on Tuesday that only 54 people had been apprehended last month in the Swanton sector of the North border – which includes areas of New Hampshire, Vermont and New York – a “drastic” drop of 95% since March 2024. It declared that the region was a “main hand” which recorded more than 80% of all apprehensions along the northern border 2024 years old.
Overall, CBP data show Just over 500 people were met by the American border patrol on the Canadian border last month, a drop of 65% compared to March 2024.
The United States Ministry of Justice announced Thursday He had sentenced an Indian residing in California to five months in prison for having exploited a human smuggling ring bringing non-citizens to the United States from Canada.
The Trump administration said more recently that she wanted to see the number of overdose deaths linked to fentanyl in the United States to fall before Canadian prices were lifted.
“I think that the deaths of autopsy, as horrible as it is, should be the statistics we examine,” the US Secretary Howard Lux Larick said last month, who oversees Trump’s pricing policy.
Provisional data from American centers for the control and prevention of diseases Deadly national exposures have regularly decreased, deaths linked to fentanyl between 30 and 50% in several states and at the national level of 35%.
However, the most recent data has shown that around 50,000 Americans died of fentanyl between November 2023 and November 2024.
More than 5,600 Canadians died of overdoses linked to opioids between January and September 2024, 75% of which involved fentanyl.
– with Canadian press files
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