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Policy Center Senior Vice President Bill Hoagland will discuss Republican efforts to pass a budget blueprint to advance the White House's legislative agenda. | |
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| Democracy. | ||
| It isn't just an idea. | ||
| It's a process. | ||
| A process shaped by leaders elected to the highest offices and entrusted to a select few with guarding its basic principles. | ||
| It's where debates unfold, decisions are made, and the nation's course is charted. | ||
| Democracy in real time. | ||
| This is your government at work. | ||
| This is C-SPAN, giving you your democracy, unfiltered. | ||
| Nearly 3,500 students across 42 states and D.C. participated in this year's C-SPAN Student Camp Documentary Competition. | ||
| This year, we asked students to create short videos with messages to the president exploring issues important to them or their communities. | ||
| All this month, we're featuring our top 21 winning entries. | ||
| One of this year's second prize middle school winners are two seventh graders from Correa Middle School in San Diego, California, where C-SPAN is available through Cox Communications. | ||
| Their winning documentary is titled One Pill Can Kill. | ||
| San Diego is America's eighth largest city. | ||
| It borders Tijuana, Mexico's second largest city, and one of the most dangerous places in the world. | ||
| I believe drugs make it through the border. | ||
| There's been a dramatic increase, about 400% in the number of cases we prosecute. | ||
| Over 236,000 people per day. | ||
| It's widely available and it's in everything. | ||
| He took one Xanax, and it was laced with fentanyl, and he died. | ||
| Fentanyl is an anesthetic that is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times more vigorous than heroin. | ||
| The drug is composed of various chemicals making the opioid extremely dangerous. | ||
| Illegal fentanyl is manufactured in unlicensed laboratories in Mexico. | ||
| Fentanyl then enters the United States through illegal smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. | ||
| My name is Andrew Flood and I'm a Deputy District Attorney Investigator now. | ||
| I was actually a special agent with Homeland Security Investigation. | ||
| My name is Adam Gordon. | ||
| I'm an assistant United States Attorney and for about three years I served as the Criminal Division Opioid Coordinator. | ||
| My name is Sydney Ake. | ||
| I'm the Director of Field Operations here for the San Diego Field Office, U.S. Customs and Board of Protection. | ||
| My name is Scott Wall. | ||
| I'm the chief of police for the San Diego Police Department. | ||
| The fentanyl has perfectly legitimate uses in the medical field. | ||
| But when it's being used illegally, it can kill you. | ||
| There have been cases where, say, fentanyl has been mixed with other drugs, with methamphetamine, with cocaine, and even different types of heroin. | ||
| Fentanyl and opioids are responsible for 80% of drug overdoses and deaths. | ||
| In America, from 1999 to 2023, 800,000 people have died due to overdoses. | ||
| They have lost not just a family member, but the memories of the family member, right? | ||
| Like you talk to them, and it's not just the fact that they've had to go this traumatic experience, but you lose somebody during Christmas, now you hate Christmas, right? | ||
| It's hard to believe 130 people die each day. | ||
| There's an unthinkable amount of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances pouring into communities. | ||
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Enough to kill every American seven times over. | |
| Think about that. | ||
| Sadly, to say, it is actually very easy to get the drug. | ||
| For dealers, they're trying to make money. | ||
| People that are selling the drugs are trying to make money, and the people that are addicted are finding money wherever they can and they're spending it on the drugs. | ||
| It's usually in vehicles, where basically a car that someone's driving, and it's usually concealed in the vehicle where it can be hidden, you name it, in people's car tires, in the pretty much gas tank, fenders, and anywhere you could put something in a car, they could hide it. | ||
| Officers going through our training program, learning to identify deception, identify nervousness, apprehensiveness, all the different things to say, maybe this person is not telling the truth. | ||
| Outside of that, our technology is huge. | ||
| Now, moving forward with AI ML or artificial intelligence and machine learning, another great tool is our canine. | ||
| They go out and they use their olfactory system or sniffing, which is a thousand times stronger than humans has, and basically go and find narcotics on vehicles to harden the borders. | ||
| I would say the advancement of technology are x-ray systems and adding a filter with, as I mentioned, artificial intelligence and machine learning, which allows our X-ray system to identify anomalies. | ||
| The X-ray or the MIML filter would go over that and identify any potential non-factory compartments, things that were built in by organizations to smuggle narcotics across the border. | ||
| If the car is scanned by our X-ray system, there's at least a 90% chance that we will find it. | ||
| I would say about 1% of 100,000 actually aren't scanned. | ||
| And it's just really important that we're educating people in the community. | ||
| But the purpose behind that is to educate, right? | ||
| Because if people who are less than 17 know that fentanyl is in all the potential drugs that they're not getting directly from the pharmacy, that's how you save lives. | ||
| The whole tagline of one pill can kill is so true and so real. | ||
| Sometimes I feel like people don't really think that it's that serious. | ||
| And it really is. | ||
| How you go about making sure everybody is educated is really difficult. | ||
| You can't just have a couple commercials. | ||
| You can't just have one class in school. | ||
| So improving our border security doesn't mean just improving physical security along our border. | ||
| It also means addressing the problems that bring them here in the first place. | ||
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The solution to the fentanyl crisis is to invest in education and to increase resources and detection technology at the ports of entry. | |
| Closing the border will not solve the issue. | ||
| They will just go around the border and they'll basically come through the fences in between the ports of entries underground in tunnels. | ||
| It would come around in the maritime area via boats and jet skis as well as pongas. | ||
| I think the biggest thing with the fentanyl issue and all drugs is actually the demand of the drug. | ||
| If there's a high demand where people want the drug, they'll find ways to get it to the market, we'll call it. | ||
| One pill kill, but we have the power to stop it. | ||
| Be sure to watch all of the winning entries on our website at studentcam.org. | ||
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| Coming up today on the C-SPAN networks. | ||
| At 10 a.m. Eastern, the Senate Commerce Committee meets to consider more of President Trump's executive nominations for NASA Administrator and the Federal Communications Commission. | ||
| The House returns at 12 for work on resolutions to repeal consumer protection rules from the Biden administration, capping overdraft fees charged by large banks and credit unions, and treating digital payment apps like Venmo and PayPal as banks. | ||
| On C-SPAN 2 at 8:30, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson speaks at the American Bankers Association's 2025 Washington Summit. | ||
| And the Senate returns at 10 a.m. to consider President Trump's executive nominations, including for U.S. ambassadors to Israel, Canada, and Mexico. | ||
| On C-SPAN 3 at 10 Eastern, U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer is on Capitol Hill for a second day to testify on President Trump's trade and tariff policies before the House Ways and Means Committee. | ||
| These events also stream live on the free C-SPAN Now video app and online at c-span.org. | ||
| American History TV Saturday is on C-SPAN 2, exploring the people and events that tell the American story. |