Schumer wants to sanction Chicoms over fentanyl

 Reuters:

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will push to include in upcoming defense policy legislation a bipartisan amendment to sanction China over its alleged role in producing the synthetic opioid fentanyl, he said on Sunday.

Schumer blamed China for much of the fentanyl that U.S. authorities say is responsible for the overdose deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. He said the drug comes from production sites in China "with the total acceptance and acquiescence of the Chinese government."

"I will push an amendment - bipartisan - into the defense bill that will include major fentanyl stopping and sanction empowering legislation, and we will bring that bill to the floor this week," Schumer told a news conference in New York.

"I hope it will pass. I believe that will pass with strong bipartisan support. And it should. It must."
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Schumer said the amendment, proposed by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and Republican Senator Tim Scott, would authorize the White House to declare fentanyl trafficking a national emergency and open the door to sanctions.

"This will really get tough with them and we will make them clamp down on the fentanyl coming to the United States," Schumer said.

Legislation introduced by the two lawmakers this year would require U.S. President Joe Biden to sanction key members of international criminal organizations involved in fentanyl trafficking and allow proceeds from sanctioned property to fund law enforcement.
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The fentanyl is being manufactured in China and then sold to the Mexican drug cartels who turn it into pills which are sold on the market and killing literally thousands of Americans.  The US should be sanctioning China and the manufacturers and also going after the cartels in Mexico.  They are killing more Americans than were killed in the Vietnam war.