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Every day 3 Canadians die because of fentanyl, so sad. It is very important to be aware of this reality. My mom has three friends whose kids passed away because of drugs. ??? Also because of the “Foreign investors“ who laundry money, housing and everything is expensive here in Canada.

I'm from Hamilton. And the ugliness that I find in my city is the amount of homeless people on the streets living on opioids laced with fentanyl. We have a homeless problem, a drug addiction problem, and a mental health problem in the downtown core.

Drugs like fentanyl in high school killing students through ODs. Absolute disaster.

I hope these people have family here to stay with. There are no funds for resources or housing lots of JOBS though. You'll be on the streets in a tent being bothered by fentanyl addicts. It's so bad here now. Lord be with them, help them, give them a better life.

Sad to see a developed country having homelessness.\nDid Justin Castro sold it to CCP?\nWhat about the drugs they give in shelter to these homeless Canadians (if they ask, social worker gives them cocaine, fentanyl etc) and its allowed by the bankrupt government.\nWake up Canadians your government is not working for you, they are working for their pockets.

from what i heard both canada and portugal have legalized drug-use to a pretty extent. but i heard that it was good in portugal (addicts are decriminalized and thus able to lead a regular life) and bad stuff about canada (homeless fentanyl zombies). as someone who has been at both places, could you please give your subjective take?

We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and Tranq available on our streets. Make no mistake about this.

We have a president that made a deal to bring fentanyl here to kill the blacks and replace them with the new orange

I am a Canadian immigrant myself.. was forced to voluntarily leave the country after 20+ years of living and working there.. it's a well known fact that Canada is taking in almost an un capped number people that can't make it to the US or other countries.. the numbers are high and nowhere near sustainable for the economy to support so many. It's common for us H1B workers to migrate to Canada permanently and their employers normally move their US Jobs to Canada as well, with a lower pay and pushing healthcare and retirement costs over to the Canadian system while doing so.. just make a trip to Canada to see for yourself what this has done to Canada.. unaffordable housing, salaries that don't cover the cost of living, a healthcare, retirement and education system that is on the brink of collapse, widespread homelessness and fentanyl abuse, just a destruction of society and the nation overall.

I lived in Canada from 1983 to 2016 after I left the US Air Force in '83. I was born in the SF Bay area, and grew up there in the Hippie peace love/Viet Nam era in the 60's and 70's. I now live in Seattle. As we have travelled to San Fran, New Orleans, Nashville, Miami, Vancouver (Canada) and New York in the last 6 months, I kinda have a pretty good idea how it was on both sides of the border way back then, as well as right now. We have 2 rental homes, and I STILL have to work until I'm 70 to retire without worrying about losing it all because of the the high cost of health care. Your observation of race/political/religion relations are naive at best, you need to travel the country first hand to see it. Canada has it's far share of right wing crazies as well. They're mostly not armed, and most fights are 5 minute shouting matches. I know this because I work on construction sites. Canada doesn't have commercials for pharma or ambulance chasers. Because big pharma is kept in check, and with a population slightly smaller than California, frivolous lawsuits would clog the courts. If the PM killed some one on the corner of Yonge and Bloor in Toronto, he'd go to jail. You can get an abortion in Canada. There's a fraction of the Fentanyl crisis happening in Canada, and they have waaayy less homeless in the street. Canada has 2 weeks paid vacation AND paid holidays. The tax rate is higher in Canada, but many of the benefits make up the difference. It's cheaper to buy a house in Seattle than Vancouver. You can get a 30 year mortgage in Washington as well, instead of 5 or 10 years. Good and services tend to be cheaper and more plentiful Stateside. Mail service runs on weekends, it hasn't done that in Canada since the 80's. As it stands, I'm in Seattle right now because it isn't the typical US city by far. But I'm thinking when it comes to retiring, I'm putting Canada on the list. Being a dual citizen also makes me eligible for the other Commonwealth (universal health care) countries like Australia.

Mexican border needs to be DMZ zone & patrolled by special national guard unit both sides. Cartels must be labeled as FTOs. This has to stop. Our country is in shambles as is can't even support our own. China's pushing fentanyl through cartels. FTOs it's time cartels are labeled as such. 20 years of desert warfare under our belt it's time to protect our homeland ??\n\nThere's a great opportunity to create enough jobs in Mexico. Stop buying from China. Between covid and fentanyl... Just the tip of the iceberg. Enough of the blind eye... We don't need war. Need the end the BS. Get this chaos under control. Work on corruption... The root cause

I realy feel for these migrants theyve come so far fleeing obvious horrors and poverty but they need to go through the process man. Most of these people are probably fine folks but it only takes one terrorist one pound of fentanyl to kill millions we need secure borders and better trade with Mexico who is more closely allighned to our values than China make everybody rich cut China and people will only try to get to Mexico for a better life.

Good job Big Joe... Child trafficking and fentanyl skyrocketing obviously has no influence on democrats policy.

You have to replace the Americans dying of fentanyl with new ppl. Over 5 million people are coming from 160 countries. America no longer exists, it has become an old memory.

Yea the province of Vancouver is the place most people think of , not the whole province of B.C.\nYou can enjoy all the tent towns that are everywhere, because of the cost of a house in that city. But I shouldn't forget to mention that B.C. just made it legal to buy and have small amounts of crack heroin and fentanyl if you want to visit your doped out friends on the east side Vancouver.

AMERICA NEEDS TO REPLACE FIX THAT BORDER WALL. FENTANYL IS KILLING PEOPLE HIJACKING MURDERS SHOPLIFTING THEFTS BURGLARS ARE UP.. VETERANS GETTING KICKED OUT OF HOTEL TO PUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN. COMMUNITIES RESOURCES ARE BEING BURDENED.. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE SHOPLIFTING AND STORES HAVE BEEN CLOSING. BECAUSE OF IT. MORE VEHICLES ARE BEING STOLEN. SEX TRAFFICKING HAS. INCREASED. SINCE 2021CRIME IS UP POLICE. PRESCENSE DOWN. SAD FOR THE COMUNITIES AND CHILDRENN DIEIING DUE TO DRUGS. 15 YEAR OLD WAS KILLED. JUST A WEEK AGO BY MS 13 members from Mexico in the US.. More terrorist. Please God I pray for everyone pleaase help your peopple from the murders thefts pains. ??❤Amen

They smuggle drugs n kill Americans with fentanyl

VOTE FOR TRUMP BECAUSE HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! It’s crazy how the US is now and this isn’t ok anymore. This transgender stuff, women’s rights getting taken away, people getting into our country, the fentanyl in the US, Biden not keeping his word to anything, and even how living situations are now for us. We’re struggling as it is but they’re gonna live off of your tax dollars. We need to vote for trump so he can fix all of this

Biden should be impeached for this invasion. All these people have no respect for our Nation's laws. Trump would never have allowed this to happen. We are being invaded with horrible consequences. Vicious gangs, tons of fentanyl and other drugs being brought in, the drug cartels are flooding our country with drugs. The left wing liberal media covers everything up. One thing that isn't covered is the drug cartels are being paid by terrorist countries like Iran to transport Islamic terrorists and their weapons into our country. Many terrorist cells are here and just waiting to attack.

Meanwhile 200 tons of fentanyl crossed the border just down the road

This is how the cartels plan massive shipments of fentanyl across the border. By organizing this they preoccupy the border agents with this nonsense.

We need interpreters, like Tony Gonzalez and Ted Cruz to explain in their language why they were deceived by Biden (for votes). Send them to SANCTUARY CITIES.\nAnd they’re gonna have to wait right where they are for now. Maybe for a long time. Maybe we should publicly humiliate the Mexican president for not honoring the “remain in Mexico” policy that worked when DJT was president. These people need to be processed before they’re released onto our property. Taxpayers pay for everything. We don’t need any more death and destruction breaking out. Just give them something to eat and drink, and make sure no harm comes to the children. It’s obvious there are some bad seeds there that need to be kept separate from the normal folks that fled their shitholes because of the promises Biden made. I don’t wanna see more Americans die from fentanyl, or run over by cars, or murdered on American soil. Call in the national guard. Every state should be very concerned about this. I know Florida has hundreds of thousands of illegals already homeless here. God help us all.

Send the water planes for fly over and dump salt water on them. My neighborhood is full. Got brand new vehicle new house free CC's I am a American senior need dentist need roof I can't get help my son killed year ago by Biden s fentanyl I am alone now\n Impeach Biden then indict him treason with his democratic demons

They’re going to be housed in $750 a night hotels for free. US taxpayer will pay. Democrats will leave the office in such a state no Republican could handle it. Then you got fentanyl problem.

Don’t let the nazis stop you bringing your fentanyl in.

What percentage of them carry FENTANYL on their bodies?? Prince DIED from ODing on FENTANYL

This is an invasion, do not let your heartstrings get pulled to the fact that the cartel is running this Mass migration so that they can do a quick burst of fentanyl and murderers into your country, I know your first instinct is to feel sorry for these people but, it's hard to root out the good from the evil and that's what they're hoping on

CNN: “Now Why are we seeing this right now?”\n\nBecause they watch the news, and your so obsessed with not apearing racist that your boy Biden gave them the green light, they have no fear or respect for our borders or country at all, and they know that there’s huge amounts of DSHS benefits waiting for them when they get here with all there fentanyl and meth. Crime is high for this exact reason. they will jump in line in front of any American, when I was 18 I became homeless due to a drug problem. I got clean and was still homeless, and I couldn’t qualify for any benefits at all because I was a white American, while drug dealers who jump the border get fast track benefits and housing for no other reason except there skin color. They will never work, why would they? They can just get benefits forever and sell drugs to get nice things while America crumbles from within.

Dear immigrants \nAmerica is NOT what is seems. the rents are to high I’m talking about $2000 just for a 1 bedroom 1bath apartment. Homeless are taking over most neighborhoods. fentanyl is killing a whole generation of kids teens and young adults these are only a few of the many problems we are facing ,so please let AMERICA take care of its problems first \n Sincerely, a worried American

Lol you think this and the fentanyl situation is bad?? Wait till Russia and China start arming the cartels. Your nightmare hasn't begun yet.

Tell the fentanyl makers to go back home

She seriously asked why are we seeing this right now. Your president told them to fucking come. Every leader on the left is giving them more benefits than our veterans can get. And no one's getting searched for fentanyl

So freaking sad…..Americans are struggling as it is….a homeless vet is treated worse that immigrants…..that’s so wrong…..the sad truth is that these people need our help but our government is too busy sending $100 billion of OUR money to Ukraine because HE has personal business ties to Metabiota and Burisma there…not because he cares about Ukrainians. He’s making so much money and using our resources to do it…….meanwhile there’s an almost completely open border. A rise in crime, fentanyl, human trafficking, child trafficking, adrenochrome harvesting, homelessness, starvation…….and he’s worried about Ukraine..and ice cream

Bring us your tired your poor. Your diseases your gangs. Your fentanyl

Young girls are being trafficked. Democrats don’t care at all. If they do they are awfully quiet about it. 100,000 fentanyl deaths each years. Biden doesn’t care because their probably not his voters. Everyday 20 veterans commit suicide in the USA. Neither party cares. Biden’s homeland security chief lies with a straight face that the borders are secure and gets away with it because nobody cares. So MF sad.

This is why fentanyl and that horse trank is everywhere in the US

And while the agents are tied up stopping the surge of migrants the cartel is moving mass quantities of fentanyl in nearby. When will they figure it out.

This is nothing short of an INVASION AT OUR BORDERS!! I can guarantee you that if we had responsible voting laws in this country just as simple as having an ID and proving American Citizenship, we wouldn’t be having this problem. Democrats don’t want those laws, and Democrats DONT WANT TO STOP what’s going on at the border, bcuz these are votes for them. The most utterly ridiculous myth about voter ID laws is that they’re racist due to low income families not being able to afford them. ANYONE with common sense knows that BULL$Hit, bcuz literally every state in the US has programs that’ll provide FREE IDs and help to get there. It’s time to stop blaming the government, and start blaming those that are the cause of this, the VOTERS that put the POSs in office. The Fentanyl epidemic and the blood of those that have lost their lives, is on the hands of the same VOTERS. Time to focus and rally against the ones that are the REAL reason for all of this. In fact, let the numbers tell you what changed. Look at the #s before 1/21 and now. People may lie, but the numbers never do!

They coming 5k a day literally with a but load of fentanyl

Put a tower every 500 feet with a 50 cal machine gun on it. You’ll only need to use em once. We’re over capacity up here amigo. Keep your fentanyl on that side putos.

This kind of stuff is exactly why we need to finish the border wall and let Border Patrol Police do their jobs!! All these politicians with their crap that these people are “asylum seekers” when they know damn well it’s the cartels and drug dealers forcing women and/or children to claim they’re a family and want in the US. Meanwhile the woman has a couple bricks of heroin, or fentanyl, or meth and God only knows what else up in her vagina and there’s bricks n whatnot in the babies diapers and/or under the lining of a car seat, etc!! Imagine you live in Texas and this giant group comes running into your neighborhood, you will be scared, I have no doubt!!

Where are the Mexican cartels not jumping all over this, you can literally take over and make billions from the heroin and fentanyl look how much the cartel American government is making.

Nothing to see here! Most likely a diversion and more fentanyl just entered.

RIP kristle Fitzpatrick Ryan Fitzpatrick Dominique lowe all fentanyl overdose deaths my sister and two cousins over 300 fentanyl deaths a day now FJB close the fucking border

I wonder what percentage of them had a kilo of fentanyl in their backpack? It's definitely not 0%. If you vote democrat nowadays you have blood on your hands.

This is nothing but an invasion you can clearly see these people do not have any respect for our country or our country's laws.\n Shame on our government especially President Biden and the Secretary of DHS for allowing this.\nPlease we all have to remember as these illegal immigrants lighting flooding across our border are bringing fentanyl which has killed over 70,000 Americans in just one year.\nThey are not being vetted guaranteed to be rapists murderers and child molesters mixed in with these people pouring over our border.\nENOUGH

Let’s get the fentanyl issue under control 1st

a fogger loaded with fentanyl problem solved

Well it's about time they closed it down, they brought all these immigrants in put them up an expensive hotels well we have our Canadian people living on the streets in tents. Where any of these immigrants and immigrants before them search for bringing in drugs like Fentanyl, and now the new drug trank.

Damn just imagine how much fentanyl just crossed over and then the us wonders why pills are like 50 cents and a butt load of people are dying bravo Biden bravo ?