I blame Biden's border crisis for my teen's fentanyl death, and thank Trump for trying to end this scourge

I americium a parent of four, but I’ll everlastingly beryllium haunted by the nonaccomplishment of my firstborn son, Weston. Weston was 15 erstwhile a fentanyl-laced pill poisoned him successful 2022. 

My lad wasn’t an addict; helium was a vibrant, progressive teen with a large heart. He attended religion doubly a week, played shot and hockey, surfed successful the Pacific, and had a laughter that could airy up a room. 

I tried to beryllium the champion ma I could be, cheering him connected astatine his games, cooking household dinners, volunteering astatine school, but nary of that was capable to prevention him from the poison tearing our state apart.  

Because of the erstwhile administration’s atrocious borderline policies, our kids tin nary longer larn from their mistakes; present they dice from them.

Weston’s decease wasn’t an overdose; it was a poisoning. Like truthful galore teens, helium wanted to acceptable successful and made 1 mistake of taking a pill from a friend, reasoning it was safe. One pill. One mistake. That’s each it took to rob america of his aboriginal and bargain my lad from our family. 

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Because of the erstwhile administration’s atrocious borderline policies, our kids tin nary longer larn from their mistakes; present they dice from them.

I clasp Joe Biden and each Democrat who champions unfastened borders accountable for my son’s death. Every azygous one!

When Biden took bureau successful 2021, we were surviving successful Southern California, and helium flung the doors to our state wide open. Our borders became a road for chaos arsenic cartels, traffickers and fentanyl poured in. I ne'er imagined it would 1 time instrumentality my lad from me. That was ne'er going to hap successful my house; that’s thing you lone saw connected the news. 

President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks astir borderline information and enforcement astatine the White House connected Jan. 5, 2023. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

But the policies of Biden and his "border czar," Kamala Harris, turned a unsighted oculus to the poison flooding our streets. They allowed this to happen, and families similar excavation paid for their reckless policy.  

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Illicit fentanyl is present the starring origin of decease for Americans aged 18 to 45 and is liable for astir 70% of the 110,000 "overdose" deaths we spot each twelvemonth successful this country. One pill… conscionable 1 pill, tin extremity a life. Weston’s decease is impervious of that. 

It’s not astir addiction; it’s astir a proviso truthful deadly and addictive, it’s inescapable. And wherever does it travel from? Mexico, with its cartels moving unchecked; Canada, wherever fentanyl labs are popping up nether lax oversight; and China, which is shipping the chemicals that substance this nightmare. For excessively long, these countries did thing portion our children died.  

That’s wherefore I’m truthful grateful to President Donald Trump. He’s taking the fentanyl situation seriously, thing I privation we’d seen erstwhile Weston was inactive alive. President Trump is implementing tariffs connected imports from Canada, Mexico and China to clasp them accountable for allowing this poison to travel freely into our country. 

He’s not conscionable talking astir the problem; President Trump is hitting these nations wherever it hurts: close successful their wallets. The president doesn’t deliberation they’ve done enough, and neither bash I. Mexico’s authorities coddles cartels. Canada is allowing labs to proliferate. China is flooding the marketplace with precursors. Enough is enough!  

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These tariffs are an emboldened wake-up telephone to unit accountability. They accidental to our neighbors and trading partners: halt the drugs, oregon wage the price. 

Some critics kick astir the costs of these tariffs, but I ask, what is the outgo of a child’s life? What worth bash you enactment connected my kid and connected the hundreds of thousands of radical who person mislaid their lives connected American ungraded nether the past administration? 

I’d wage thing to person Weston back, and President Trump understands that. He’s a begetter and a fighter, utilizing America’s economical musculus to support families similar mine. This isn’t astir politics; it’s astir survival. 

I deliberation astir my Weston each day. He should beryllium 18 now, readying his future, his assemblage path, what helium wants to large in, not reduced to a sanction connected a headstone. Biden’s unfastened borders fto this poison in, but Trump’s tariffs are a measurement toward shutting it out.  

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It’s excessively precocious for my son, but it’s not excessively precocious for yours. The fentanyl situation has taken excessively many, with hundreds of thousands of American lives stolen by an illicit drug, a poison that seems unstoppable. 

President Trump is showing he’s consenting to effort thing different, thing tough. For that, I say: Thank you, Mr. President, convey you. Keep fighting!

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