U.S. Border Patrol agents testifying before the Oversight Committee on Tuesday acknowledged that the amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border so far this year is enough to kill nearly five times the population of the U.S.GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee flagged the heart-stopping amounts of illegal drugs with the two Border Patrol Chief witnesses to bring attention to the increasing public health crisis, noting the hundreds of citizens who died from fentanyl overdoses in his district alone last year.Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin noted that 700 pounds of fentanyl was seized in his area alone in 2022, which he noted was enough to kill half the population of the United States.
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