Vice President of National Border Patrol Council says fentanyl-laced blue pills are selling for $1

Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, Art Del Cueto, said that blue pills laced with fentanyl are being sold for one dollar. 

"This is how easy it is to get fentanyl right now," Del Cueto said on the Thursday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "The blue pills–they're going for about a dollar out on the market. A dollar. That's all they're spending in order to buy these drugs."

Del Cueto attributed the massive amounts of fentanyl in the U.S. to the southern border crisis and the Biden administration's not doing enough to stop it. 

"There's so much of it coming through our nation's borders, and you know, it's the entire domino effect," he said. "And this administration has just completely ignored everything that's happening in America right now."

In an attempt to stop the smuggling of drugs and human trafficking at the southern border, Texas launched Operation Lone Star back in 2021 which integrated the Texas Department of Public Safety with the Texas National Guard.

Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office announced that Texas law enforcement had seized over 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl.

Del Cueto said that Border Patrol agents are frustrated they can't do more to stop the crisis because of a lack of support. 

"It's frustrating, because you see agents that are going out there," he said. "They're putting their lives on the line, there are individuals that are attacking them and they're attacking them in certain areas in the media. They don't feel like the majority of the leadership is backing them up. They could get hurt. They could get killed."