Father who lost daughter to fentanyl demands action on border: ‘She didn’t overdose, she was poisoned’

A father who misplaced his daughter to a fentanyl overdose sounded the alarm Thursday on the tragic pattern, demanding motion on the border disaster because the lethal drug continues to plague communities nationwide. 

FORMER DEA AGENT SOUNDS ALARM ON FENTANYL DEATHS, BORDER CRISIS: ‘A CATASTROPHIC SITUATION’ 

Matt Capelouto warned the spike in fentanyl-related deaths needs to be handled as a “nationwide safety risk” on “Fox & Pals First.”

“I feel there is a false impression that it is a… drug drawback and this must be checked out extra as a nationwide safety risk,” Capelouto informed co-host Carley Shimkus. “We now have individuals dying from this earlier than they actually have a probability to get addicted.”

Capelouto misplaced his daughter in 2019 throughout her school winter break in Southern California after she took a fentanyl-laced Oxycodone capsule. Capelouto mentioned his then 20-year-old daughter was finding out on a full tutorial scholarship at Arizona State College. 

“That is only a tragedy past epic proportions, and except for that drug seller who’s straight answerable for taking my daughter’s life, we should be addressing the cartels which can be working with impunity simply south of our border and China, the place these cartels are getting the fentanyl from,” Capelouto mentioned. “We’re doing nothing to carry them accountable,” he continued. 

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warned earlier this month fentanyl overdoses are going down at an “unprecedented charge” with 29 individuals useless and one other 58 individuals who overdosed in latest weeks. 

“We want the media’s assist with this, and a method we may also help is to cease utilizing the time period overdose,” Capelouto mentioned. 

“People are being poisoned. My daughter obtained and took half of 1 capsule which killed her. Overdoses is while you take an excessive amount of of one thing… She was poisoned, and that is what number of of our younger individuals are dying.”

California father Matt Capelouto along with his household.
(Fox Information)

In the meantime, border officers seized over 90 kilos of fentanyl, sufficient to kill greater than 10 million individuals, in a single week because the disaster continues. 

Border brokers are bracing for an extra inflow of migrants and drug seizures because the Biden administration is anticipated to elevate Title 42 in Could.