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altmin said:
I have to report anti-American sentiment is starting to really get heated here. I will be hesitant to mention to anyone who doesn't know already that I am one.
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And I was planning to take my kids to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls this summer.
 
So I’ve continued reading about this and it’s still not clear to me

a) why the tariffs are happening
b) what the intended effect is and
c) what Canada, Mexico and China can do to get the tariffs removed.

Am I slow or is everyone else as confused as I am? Most news articles just explain what tariffs are with some discussion about the effects but less about the why and how.
 
nrsair said:
So I’ve continued reading about this and it’s still not clear to me

a) why the tariffs are happening
b) what the intended effect is and
c) what Canada, Mexico and China can do to get the tariffs removed.

Am I slow or is everyone else as confused as I am? Most news articles just explain what tariffs are with some discussion about the effects but less about the why and how.
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The Canadians and Mexicans don’t know either.
 
nrsair said:
So I’ve continued reading about this and it’s still not clear to me

a) why the tariffs are happening
b) what the intended effect is and
c) what Canada, Mexico and China can do to get the tariffs removed.

Am I slow or is everyone else as confused as I am? Most news articles just explain what tariffs are with some discussion about the effects but less about the why and how.
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Supposedly, on point 1, because fentanyl and generally ripping off America (because we have trade deficits??). No details offered on points 2 & 3.
 
nycfan said:
Supposedly, on point 1, because fentanyl and generally ripping off America (because we have trade deficits??). No details offered on points 2 & 3.
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Here's some updated stats on fentanyl smuggling from the notoriously liberal Cato Institute.



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AUGUST 23, 2023 11:11AM

U.S. Citizens Were 89% of Convicted Fentanyl Traffickers in 2022​

By David J. Bier

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This updates an earlier post.
Fentanyl overdoses tragically caused tens of thousands of preventable deaths last year. Many politicians who want to end U.S. asylum law claim that immigrants crossing the border illegally are responsible. An NPR‐Ipsos poll found that 39 percent of Americans and 60 percent of Republicans believe, “Most of the fentanyl entering the U.S. is smuggled in by unauthorized migrants crossing the border illegally.” A more accurate summary is that fentanyl is overwhelmingly smuggled by U.S. citizens, almost entirely for U.S. citizen consumers.
Here are the facts:
  • Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
  • In 2022, U.S. citizens were 89 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—12 times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
  • In 2023, 93 percent of fentanyl seizures occurred at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
  • The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are at least 96 percent less likely to be stopped than people crossing illegally between them.
  • At most, just 0.009 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
  • Each individual busted for fentanyl by Border Patrol possessed, on average, half as much fentanyl as each person busted at ports of entry in 2023 (10 versus 20 pounds).
  • The government exacerbated the problem by banning most legal cross-border traffic in 2020 and 2021, accelerating a switch to fentanyl (the easiest-to-conceal drug).
  • During the travel restrictions, fentanyl seizures at ports quadrupled from fiscal year 2019 to 2021. Fentanyl went from a third of combined heroin and fentanyl seizures to over 90 percent.
  • Annual deaths from fentanyl nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 after the government banned most travel (and asylum).
 
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