Anne Milgram [DEA Administrator]: The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for the American border and the Ports of Entry, so DEA is not engaged at the border or Ports of Entry.

[strange…hasn't DEA operated at the border in the past?]

Milgram: These two cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartel, are dominating and controlling the entire global supply chain of Fentanyl.

Chris Murphy: It's important to understand the circular trade that happens at the Mexican border with these cartels; it's American guns going south, and it's Chinese and Mexican drugs going north…we are fueling the cartel's ability to run this trade by allowing these guns to be bought in the United States through background checks exceptions, and sent down to Mexico.

[blaming US gun laws for cartel drug trade]

Gupta [Director National Drug Control Policy]: We know that most of the drugs that are coming through are through Ports of Entry.

[common theme from Biden administration is insisting large amounts of drugs are not coming through between Ports of Entry]

Milgram: We have told the social media companies that American lives are being lost because of what is happening on their platforms…on a regular basis we are on these social media platforms, and we are seeing drug marketing and drug sales…that have been up for months.

[the DEA should have virtually unlimited targets through social media; are they doing anything but monitoring them?]

Menendez: According to the bi-partisan commission on combating synthetic opioid trafficking, Mexican cartels traffic illicit Fentanyl to the United States primarily via established Ports of Entry at the southern border.

[they continue to insist that little drug trafficking occurs between Ports of Entry; motivated by their desire to flood the country with illegals]

Cruz: Would cutting the number of CBP agents in half hurt our ability to stop drugs?

Milgram: I believe it would.

Cruz: That's effectively what's happened under the Biden administration, because right now, more than half of the CBP agents are engaged in housekeeping and chauffeurs, and babysitting, of the 5.5 million illegal aliens that have crossed the border.

Cruz: Gotaways can vary from terrorists on the terror watch list…or they can be drug dealers carrying drugs, is that correct?

Milgram: I'm going to defer questions on the border and the Ports of Entry to the Department of Homeland Security.

Cruz: The DEA has no view on whether drug dealers crossing the border carry drugs?

Milgram: What we see is mostly tractor trailers and personal vehicles…

Cruz: So you're sticking to the talking points closely, and congratulations. It's the democrat talking points that the open borders don't matter…the single best thing that happened to Mexican drug cartels in history was Joe Biden…opening the border, and making tens of billions of dollars for these viscous criminals.

All of the democrats in the hearing, and the agency stooges, only have concerns with the Ports of Entry. None of them will admit drug trafficking is going on between them, and point only to the Ports of Entry. Van Hollen even referenced 'immigration reform' as somehow relevant to the discussion.

Booker: The problem at the border is real. It spiked tremendously under the Trump administration relative to the Obama administration.

Booker: It's frustrating to me, that in this hearing, a lot of folks want to try to levy other issues that are not central to dealing with this scourge.

[Booker is claiming that the open border has nothing to do with Fentanyl trafficking]