US Border Patrol Has Seized Enough Narcotics in Fiscal Year 2023 to Kill Over 6 Billion People

An officer from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Trade and Cargo Division finds Oxycodone pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport's U.S. Postal Service facility in New York on June 24, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Border Patrol officials have seized enough lethal drugs this fiscal year to kill more than 6.4 billion people—or 19 times the U.S. population—as the amount of narcotics being smuggled into the country spikes.

This comes as the Biden administration faces growing criticism for failing to secure the southern border with Mexico.