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Nearly 90 Percent Concerned About Dangerous Drugs Flooding Across Southern Border


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Nearly 90 Percent Concerned About Dangerous Drugs Flooding Across Southern Border

As Trump Era Immigration Rules Set to Expire Next Month HOW MANY MORE? Rally in Austin, TX on April 29th is Pushing for Passage of HB 20—Legislation Which Would Empower Texas to Create a State-Based Border Protection Unit and Repel the Invasion

(Austin, TX—April 25, 2023) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted April 11th through April 14th of over 1,000 likely general election voters.

“The huge numbers of voters, from all political parties, showing concern on this issue should be a wake-up call to every politician and bureaucrat in Washington D.C. How many more Americans have to die before the federal government takes the threat of fentanyl streaming across our southern border seriously? Every 7 minutes another American dies from a fentanyl overdose, and month after month we hear of no real solutions coming out of D.C,” said Mark Meckler, President of the Convention of States and organizer of the upcoming HOW MANY MORE? Rally in Austin, TX. “Thankfully states are starting to step up, with the Texas Legislature now considering legislation that would allow the state to aggressively address the drug cartels free rein at the border.”

Mark Meckler is one of the organizers of the event, where he’ll be joined by Ted Nugent, Congressman Chip Roy, Lara Logan, and real-life victims and subject matter experts on the ongoing border crisis at the upcoming HOW MANY MORE? Rally on April 29th at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, TX. The rally is highlighting the unfolding crisis at the U.S. southern border with the dangerous influx of drugs like Fentanyl into the U.S., human trafficking, and the national security threat posed by drug cartels and international terrorist organizations. 

The rally will serve as a call for Texas leaders like Governor Abbott and other state officeholders to take immediate, strong, and decisive action.  The potential actions include, among other things, declaring an “invasion” at the southern border, securing the passage of Texas HB 20 (which will create a Texas Border Protection Unit), and declaring the cartels as terror organizations.

For complete details on the poll, including graphics, please visit:
https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nat-issues-border-drugs-0418/

KEY INSIGHT: Large Majority of American Voters Concerned About Flood of Drugs Being Trafficked at U.S. Southern Border:

  • 87.5 percent of voters say they are concerned about the large quantity of fentanyl and other illegal drugs being brought across the southern U.S. border:

    • 63.6 percent say very concerned

    • 23.9 percent say somewhat concerned

  • 12.5 percent of voters say they are not concerned about the large quantity of fentanyl and other illegal drugs being brought across the southern U.S. border:

    • 8.1 percent say not very concerned

    • 4.4 percent say not concerned at all

KEY INSIGHT: Concern Over Drug Trafficking at Southern Border Crosses Bipartisan Divides:

  • 82 percent of Democratic voters say they are concerned about the large quantity of fentanyl and other illegal drugs being brought across the southern U.S. border. 18 percent say they are not concerned.

  • 84.1 percent of Independent voters say they are concerned about the large quantity of fentanyl and other illegal drugs being brought across the southern U.S. border. 15.8 percent say they are not concerned.

  • 94.7 percent of Republican voters say they are concerned about the large quantity of fentanyl and other illegal drugs being brought across the southern U.S. border. 5.3 percent say they are not concerned.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
Convention of states action

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