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No, Ms. Jacobsen, fentanyl trafficking and illegal immigration are not intertwined.

Sadly, Jacobsens op-ed doesnt tell us why she should be reelected or why shed be a better secretary of State than her opponent. Her opposition seems to be President Biden (whos running for a different office) and the liberal agenda (whatever that means). Sadly, too, she invokes one of her partys most weary tropes: that migrants are criminals. Or, in this specific case, the surge in fentanyl trafficking and massive illegal immigration are intertwined issues.

For surge in fentanyl trafficking she claims that seizures skyrocketed by more than 20,000% over the past five years. You might have thought that skyrocketing seizures would reduce the surge rather than increase it (although, in any case, the 20,000% is a beyond-belief whopper). And for massive illegal immigration she gives us sinister plots of illegal immigrants being secretly placed in non-sanctuary cities. (Cue the ominous music, please.)

But heres the thing. Drug addiction and illegal migration arent two sides of the same coin. Each is one, or both, sides of its own coin. To mix them together is to make each more difficult to understand. Or solve.

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Drug addiction, illegal migration aren't the same - Billings Gazette

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