Border Patrol agents have seized enough fentanyl between the ports of entry so far this fiscal year to kill 100 million people, the head of Border Patrol said this week -- which would be more people than live in California, Texas and New York.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz announced that agents have seized more than 465lbs of the narcotic, which can fatal in tiny doses, between the ports of entry since the start of the fiscal year in October.
"That's enough to kill 100 million people," he said.
Ortiz made the remarks in announcing that agents in the Yuma Sector in Arizona had encountered an illegal migrant carrying 93 lbs worth of the narcotic. Last week, he had noted the dramatic increase in seizures, saying that agents had caught enough fentanyl to kill over 60 million people just in January.