As it turns out, coronavirus isn’t the only danger from China that can be slowed down with a travel ban.
Since President Donald Trump stopped travel from China, drug lords have had a hard time getting their hands on narcotics—and the ingredients to make them, according to reports.
That means the Wuhan virus pandemic, which has impacted businesses across the globe for the worst, is also killing the supply of drugs from the epicenter of narcotics in China.
More specifically, Mexican drug cartels are struggling to keep their deadly enterprise going, because they can’t arrange cargo jets full of drugs like they used to. And believe it or not, that alone is saving American lives.
It’s one of very few silver linings throughout the global pandemic.
The Sinaloa and Jalisco drug cartels have lost up to 80% of their revenues. And according to Fox News they’ve reportedly had to jack up prices, charging buyers as much as four-times as much as usual.
It’s simple supply and demand.
Government officials warn that supply is sky-high.
And the Chinese have plenty of supply—but they can’t get it to the U.S., all thanks to Trump’s travel ban over the coronavirus.
So what’s left is around 5,000 labs in China, all with a surplus in drugs, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency.
“Clandestinely produced fentanyl is trafficked into the United States primarily from China and Mexico and is responsible for the ongoing fentanyl epidemic,” according to a 2018 DEA report.
Sometimes China puts high purity fentanyl directly on U.S. streets. Sometimes it sells fentanyl to Mexican traffickers, who dilute it and ship it across America’s wide-open Southwest border. And sometimes cartels in Mexico order the components from Chinese labs and make their own batches of the narcotic.
“Mexican traffickers’ primary source of supply for fentanyl precursor chemicals is also China,” the DEA said. When it’s all said and done, a massive amount of “Mexican” fentanyl is “ultimately of Chinese origin.”
Once the gangs make an order, the Chinese connection gets to work smuggling the drugs to North America.
“Cartels bring synthetic drugs through food exports, fruits, automotive equipment, toys and other products that are allocated in an extensive distribution network across the United States,” Johan Obdola of the Global Organization for Intelligence told Fox News.
Then lives fall apart and Americans start to die.
But “COVID-19 has generated a huge loss in regarding any illegal drugs, and specifically synthetic drugs, not only to Mexican cartels but to most drug cartels operating worldwide,” Obdola said.
Part of the drug cartels’ losses is the travel ban—but it’s also the decisions being made by Donald Trump.
President Trump has cracked down on China like no president in history. He has blitzed its corrupt trade practices, calling out its international bullying, and crippling its global drug trade. After Trump turned the applied the pressure in a 2018 summit, China held the first-ever prosecution of Chinese citizens who trafficked drugs to the U.S.
But insiders say it was just a PR stunt to appease Trump while China keeps exporting the deadly and profitable drugs.
Journalist Ben Westhoff, who visited Chinese drug labs for his book “Fentanyl Inc.,” said China’s supporting the drug industry that’s killing millions of Americans.
“The biggest and most disturbing revelation from my book was that not only is China not doing enough to contain this industry, they’re actually encouraging this industry through a series of tax breaks, subsidies and other grants,” he said last fall.
So, Trump has just cut China off completely and it’s saved an unknown number of Americans’ lives.
Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard this in the liberal media.
It doesn’t fit their agenda.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”