Donald Trump accused of falsely vilifying migrants for surge in US fentanyl deaths

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51% : Opioid addiction is also more common among residents of rural areas and white adults, both demographics that Trump won over during the last presidential election.
32% : Gil Kerlikowske, who led Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during the Obama administration following five years as the White House chief of national drug control policy, said Republicans know there is no truth to accusations that migrants crossing the Mexican border illegally are carrying the bulk of fentanyl sold in the US.
30% : "So if you can then push this off, as Trump is doing, to the fact that this fentanyl is coming across the border and is available, here's something that can be blamed for what happened, not you," said Kerlikowske.
20% : "I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris the border czar - what a joke - and Gavin Newsom, and every Democrat who supports open borders, responsible for the death of my son," she said to a standing ovation from Trump.
17% : At last week's Republican national convention in Milwaukee, Trump claimed that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by fentanyl smuggled across the border by migrants entering the US illegally.Delegates wept and cheered as a mother from California, Anne Fundner, told the conference that Biden, Harris and the California governor, Gavin Newsom, were responsible for the death of her 15-year-old son, Weston, from an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2022.
7% : Trump and other Republicans have sought to link that tragedy to the migrant crisis at the border with Mexico as the numbers of people arriving from Central America have surged, and to cast blame on Biden and Harris.

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