Rubio filed legislation to impose severe penalties on dealers, including the death penalty or life imprisonment, as Washington scrambles to rein in the steady stream of deadly synthetic opioids that Mexican cartels are sending across the border.
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Mr. Biden was referring to an effort to permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as a class on Schedule I to ensure harsh penalties for traffickers instead of letting the substances fall out of the stringent category in December 2024. Overdose deaths involving a synthetic opioid have soared from nearly 10,000 in 2015 and 20,000 in 2016 — the period when fentanyl started to infiltrate the U.S. drug supply — to 56,000 in 2020 and more than 70,000 in 2021, according to the most recent federal figures available based on death certificates.
“We cannot allow heavily armed and deadly cartels to destabilize Mexico and import people and drugs into the United States. We must start treating them like ISIS — because that is who they are,” Mr. Crenshaw said.
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