The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed on Wednesday the “High to Fentanyl Law”, destined to combat this substance and harden the penalties for those who traffic with it by establishing a minimum sentence of ten years of jail.
“It means that anyone who is surprised by trafficking with these illicit poisons will be punished with a minimum mandatory penalty of ten years in prison.”the White House tenant has highlighted in an act in which he has been accompanied by several relatives of victims of fentanyl and other drugs.
The law permanently classifies substances related to fentanyl, including the imitating synthetic versions of the drug, in category I of the Law of Controlled Substances, which gives the authorities greater powers to combat their propagation.
As of today, all fentanyl related substances will be prohibited forever
“For years, the monsters that manufacture illicit fentanyl have tried to avoid legal restrictions by making small variations of the chemical compound,” he said, denouncing that “in the process, they have developed even more toxic versions of the drug, a common variant known as carplantil (…) 100 times more powerful.” “As of today, all fentanyl related substances will be prohibited forever and those who traffic with these mortal poisons will be imprisoned for a very long period,” he said.
In addition, the American president has presumed that the new law “inflicts another defeat to the wild drug traffickers, criminals and cartels,” who, has assured, “have tremendous control over Mexico.”
“We are going to get traffickers, camels and street vendors from our streets And we will not rest until we have ended the epidemic of drug overdose, “he has promised among criticism of border and anti -drug policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden, whom he has criticized for allowing” an invasion “barely defeated, has affirmed, by the Trump administration and the deployment of the immigration and customs control service (ICE) Border patrol.
Trump boasts good relationship with Xi Jinping
On the other hand, Trump has presumed his “very good relationship with President XI (Jinping) of China”, although in April a 20 percent tariff imposed on April in what this Wednesday has described as “a sanction because China supplies much of the fentanyl.” “Some would say that everything. They supply it to Mexico and even our own country,” he added.
“Thus they pay billions of dollars in damages for what they have done. And I think we are going to solve it so that China ends up going from that to apply the death penalty to the people who create this fentanyl and send it to our country, either through other countries or directly,” said the US president.
