Cornyn, a Republican, linked this statistic to President Joe Biden’s border policy.
A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers over the weekend at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona.
“Texas has very few medical examiners in all of our 254 counties, so we already know that it’s often a justice of the peace or someone who’s not medically trained,” Ory said. “Because of that the symptoms of an overdose death might be interpreted as cardiac failure, respiratory problems.” “Cornyn’s right that in 2018 we had seen a slow decrease, slow slide, of drug overdose deaths. That’s absolutely true. But coinciding with the start of the pandemic, we saw a sharp increase in the number of overdose deaths,” Walters said.PolitiFact is a fact-checking project to help you sort out fact from fiction in politics. Truth-O-Meter ratings are determined by a panel of three editors.
Cornyn wrote in his tweet, “Pres. Biden’s open borders policies are letting drugs like Fentanyl pour into our communities. This cannot go on — we must secure the border.” Cornyn said he believed Customs and Border Protection agents’ focus on an influx of migrants has detracted from drug interdiction efforts.
Jane Maxwell, a University of Texas professor who monitors drug use patterns in Texas, said there is not a lot of data available on users, despite fentanyl’s link to many recent drug overdose deaths.
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