Regarding the "Do Something" article last week , Sheriff Brown pleaded with Santa Barbara County supervisors to do something about the fentanyl deaths in the county. This year at 226, not all from fentanyl but still a lot of deaths, many children, White, Brown, Black are all affected.
The supervisors responded that "millions of tax dollars had been spent on new jails and new officers and so don't expect more right now, we are broke." But the supes are missing the point. These new potent drugs are coming in across an open Mexican border. A border that for 100 years had the military on it, from 1848-1948.
I was at the California border last week, at Jacumba Hot Springs, with a film crew, and we saw firsthand what and who comes across this open border. We saw the cartel trucks bringing in loads of homeless immigrants. The federal Border Patrol could only watch and monitor as these immigrants walked around the end of a 17-foot high Trump border wall and strolled down a desert road, one whole mile into America. Here they waited under some large tents 100 yards from Interstate 8, where white vans from Catholic charities arrive daily and take them to the interiors of California.