Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse

Walt said:
Actually, more deaths from guns than Fentanyl in the USA, but more deaths from opioids in general than guns. It is another one of those apples and oranges comparison.

And guns move from America to Mexico, so you are missing the point. There are many more deaths in Mexico from American guns than from American Fentanyl. There is no point in smuggling guns into the USA.
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According to the DEA, the number of forensic drug reports testing positive for fentanyl has skyrocketed in recent years from under 20,000 in 2015 to 117,045 in 2020. A recent study from the National Institutes of Health found that the number of individual fentanyl pills seized by law enforcement increased nearly 50-fold from the first quarter of 2018 to the last quarter of 2021.

Even though the adolescent rates outpaced them, adults haven't been spared from the rising ubiquity of fentanyl. Provisional data released by the CDC in March showed that overdose deaths across age groups had reached record highs, taking the lives of nearly 106,000 Americans within the prior year.

These deaths were in large part driven by fentanyl.

A separate CDC study showed that of the more than 100,000 people who died from drug overdoses between May 2020 and April 2021, nearly two-thirds were linked to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.

Overall, deaths linked to synthetic opioids have nearly doubled in Americans of any age over the past two years, the provisional data showed.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/opioi...ns-skyrocketed-due-fentanyl/story?id=84035862
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About 43K gun related deaths in 2021 54% were suicides 43 % were murders.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
 
Into the Night said:
Not for safety, for contraband.
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Trucks are inspected at the border for road safety because of the NAFTA treaty. Or at least Mexican trucks are. Abbot has discovered that if you really inspect American trucks very hard, you can find some lapses. The Mexican trucks are better, because they are terrified of messing up their customs safety inspection.
 
RB 60 said:
They only do that at airports, not at the borders...
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For the most part, they never do a body cavity search. X-Rays do a much better job, and are less invasive. They can do that at an airport, or at a land border. There is no legal difference between them.
 
Walt said:
Trucks are inspected at the border for road safety because of the NAFTA treaty.
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No such provision in the treaty. You are imagining things again. Trucks are inspected at the border for contraband. If they happen to notice an obvious flaw in the truck, they will stop it for that, too.
Walt said:
Or at least Mexican trucks are.
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We ARE talking about the Mexican border, right???
Walt said:
Abbot has discovered that if you really inspect American trucks very hard, you can find some lapses.
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Sure. They get inspected for safety from time to time by various States.
Walt said:
The Mexican trucks are better, because they are terrified of messing up their customs safety inspection.
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You are imagining things again. No. Mexican trucks are not better. They are often poorly maintained.
 
Walt said:
For the most part, they never do a body cavity search. X-Rays do a much better job, and are less invasive. They can do that at an airport, or at a land border. There is no legal difference between them.
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X-rays ARE a body cavity search, dude.
They are also harmful to human tissue.

Don't stick your hand in the x-ray scanner at the airport. You might come away with internal burns.
Fortunately, these days people take their vacation pictures with their phones or other digital camera. These X-rays would fog film.

You are not scanned by X-rays at the airport or at any border crossing.
Your luggage is, though.
 
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Mexican side of the border to secure the border. Its part of Abbot's agreement with the Mexican border governors. Abbot's plan is working.;)
 
Into the Night said:
No such provision in the treaty.
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Mexican commercial vehicles with authority to operate beyond the commercial zones will be permitted to enter the United States only at commercial border crossings and only when a certified motor carrier safety inspector is on duty.
Federal and state safety inspectors will be required to inspect and verify the status and validity of the license of each driver of a long-haul Mexican-domiciled motor carrier (1) when carrying a placardable quantity of hazardous material; (2) when undergoing a full vehicle driver Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance inspection; and (3) 50 percent of other long-haul Mexican drivers engaged in cross-border operations.
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https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/internati...merican-free-trade-agreement-nafta-fact-sheet

Into the Night said:
No. Mexican trucks are not better. They are often poorly maintained.
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They have to be better to get over the border. Mexico does not place stringent requirements on American vehicles, so they are worse.
 
Into the Night said:
X-rays ARE a body cavity search, dude.
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X-rays are X-ray searches. Cavity searches involve putting objects into someone else's cavity.

Into the Night said:
They are also harmful to human tissue.
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In medical or customs inspection use, it will raise the chances of cancer, but only a tiny bit. It is permissible for law enforcement to do it, if they have a warrant, or you are crossing a border.

Into the Night said:
Don't stick your hand in the x-ray scanner at the airport. You might come away with internal burns.
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You really will not. It will increase your chances of cancer, but will not burn you.

Into the Night said:
These X-rays would fog film.
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You can think of X-rays as light that will go through solid objects of low density. The amount of light that will fog film is not enough light to burn the body.

Into the Night said:
You are not scanned by X-rays at the airport or at any border crossing.
Your luggage is, though.
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Most airports have backscatter X-ray or millimeter wave machines to check for weapons. You are required to either go through them, or take a pat down by hand. If they become suspicious, they can do a more extreme X-ray, and there is no opting out of that.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiati...and Security,and worker exposure to radiation.
 
Walt said:
X-rays are X-ray searches. Cavity searches involve putting objects into someone else's cavity.



In medical or customs inspection use, it will raise the chances of cancer, but only a tiny bit. It is permissible for law enforcement to do it, if they have a warrant, or you are crossing a border.



You really will not. It will increase your chances of cancer, but will not burn you.



You can think of X-rays as light that will go through solid objects of low density. The amount of light that will fog film is not enough light to burn the body.



Most airports have backscatter X-ray or millimeter wave machines to check for weapons. You are required to either go through them, or take a pat down by hand. If they become suspicious, they can do a more extreme X-ray, and there is no opting out of that.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiati...and Security,and worker exposure to radiation.
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Nope. No backscatter X ray machines are used on people at airports.
 
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