Border Patrol Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl in Single Weekend to Kill Entire Population of...

$3.6 million worth of cocaine. Nearly a million dollars worth of heroin. And enough fentanyl to kill 2.75 million people—more than the entire population of Chicago.

That's what law enforcement seized on the southern border over the weekend, as hundreds of thousands of immigrants gather in Mexico to prepare to flood the United States this week.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz on Monday shared that law enforcement seized 164 pounds of marijuana, 83 pounds of methamphetamine, 66 pounds of cocaine, and 11 pounds of fentanyl, just two to three milligrams of which can kill a user. The total value of the drugs seized is well north of $10 million, according to United Nations' estimates of drug costs, and is also likely a fraction of the drugs coming across the border, most of which is not seized by authorities. Ortiz also disclosed that agents apprehended nearly 26,400 illegal aliens and knows that at least 7,399 crossed the southern border and evaded law enforcement.