Open Borders, Open Veins: The Drug Crisis Progressives Unleashed
Deadliest Consequence of Democratic Rule
This essay exposes how the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border agenda and ideological sabotage—not mere incompetence—unleashed a historic drug epidemic, empowered cartels, and engineered a demographic power shift at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans. The bodies piling up in morgues prove it.
The Deadly Cost of Progressive Rule
The Biden administration presided over the largest inflow of illegal aliens and fentanyl in American history—not through formal legislation, but through staggering incompetence and a cognitively diminished figurehead: weak, compromised, and stage-managed by progressive operatives behind the curtain. The consequences were catastrophic. None more lethal than the tidal wave of fentanyl that swept across America. Between 2021 and 2024, 267,519 Americans died from fentanyl—part of 413,141 total drug-related deaths. These aren’t just statistics. This is the body count of ideological negligence.
The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t respect weakness. It exploits corruption, cultivates compromised actors, and escalates aggression when it senses no resistance. They escalated the export of fentanyl precursors, fully aware Biden wouldn’t—or couldn’t—lift a finger to stop the flow. Why would they? The Biden family operated over 20 shell companies used to conceal tens of millions in foreign payments—much of it tied to Chinese entities. Chinese money even helped fund the Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the very think tank from which Biden launched his campaign.
The cartels saw the same soft target. They flooded the U.S. with poison—and met no resistance. Trump-era deterrents were dismantled. Wall construction was halted. The “Remain in Mexico” policy was scrapped. Immigration enforcement was gutted. The border wasn’t neglected—it was deliberately opened. Not for humanitarian reasons, but for political gain. The progressive strategists pulling the strings didn’t want border security. They wanted bodies.
More bodies meant more census seats—and a future voting bloc for the Democratic Party. Once the flood of illegals crossed the border, removal became politically untouchable and logistically impossible. Babies born on U.S. soil became instant citizens. Families became anchors. The long game was never about shutting down the pipeline—it was about cementing power through demographic manipulation and permanent political entrenchment.
The result: a border wide open, cartels in control, and hundreds of thousands of dead Americans—nearly 7 in 10 killed by fentanyl. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death in the U.S. for adults aged 18 to 44, according to the CDC. The unintentional overdose death rate surpassed motor vehicle fatalities over a decade ago.
This wasn’t passive failure—it was the inevitable outcome of ideological capture, strategic malice, and corrupt, incompetent leadership wholly unfit for the highest office in the land.
This essay makes the case. The evidence follows.
A Surge of Poison
During Trump’s first three years (2017–2019), law enforcement seized approximately 1.91 million fentanyl-laced pills. Under Biden, during just the first three years (2021–2023), seizures exploded to 171.47 million—an increase of 89.7x.
Fentanyl Pills Seized by U.S. Law Enforcement (NIDA):
2017: 49,657
2018: 290,304
2019: 1,572,731
2020: 4,149,037
2021: 11,450,142
2022: 44,461,443
2023: 115,562,603
During Trump’s first three years, 96,160 Americans died from fentanyl. Under Biden, fentanyl deaths surged 129.7%, reaching 220,892. Total drug deaths increased 56.3%, climbing to 325,600. These spikes can’t be explained by population growth, which rose just 1.6% over the same period.
Comparison of Fentanyl and Drug-Related Deaths
Table: Fentanyl and Total Drug Deaths — Trump vs. Biden
(2020 excluded due to pandemic shutdown distortion; 2024 omitted due to incomplete reporting).
The surge was policy-driven—open borders, decriminalization, and a willful refusal to enforce the law. Cartels were empowered. Drug flows surged. Cities buckled. And the bodies piled up.
Biden’s Fentanyl Failure: A Crisis Enabled by Design
While the Biden administration claimed it took action to combat fentanyl, the results speak for themselves—and they’re damning. Overdose deaths shattered records. Executive orders and photo-op diplomacy meant nothing against an open-border agenda that dismantled every effective Trump-era deterrent.
Fact: Under Trump, illegal crossings dropped 96% in just 60 days—driven by aggressive enforcement, pressure on Mexico, and clear, credible deterrence.
Fact: Under Biden, illegal crossings surged, fentanyl seizures jumped over 610%, and overdose deaths hit all-time highs.
Fact: Biden repeatedly claimed his hands were tied without “comprehensive immigration reform”—a lie. Trump proved the border can be secured by executive authority alone.
The Biden-Harris administration didn’t lack the tools—they lacked the will. Their refusal to enforce existing law, their systematic dismantling of effective policies, and their fixation on political optics over public safety gave the cartels—and Communist China—free rein to saturate the country with lethal drugs.
This wasn’t a policy failure. It was ideological sabotage. And the cost is measured in mass death and national decline.
The Demographic Power Play
The “7–10 million” figure—widely quoted by Biden’s DHS and corporate media—only counts border encounters, excluding visa overstays, “gotaways,” and the hundreds of thousands flown in under parole and temporary status. It’s a politically sanitized number, crafted to conceal the full scale of what’s happened. The true totals are understated by roughly 70%.
The verified—and likely conservative—estimate of total immigration inflow during Biden’s term (January 2021–January 2025) is 13.8 million. This includes:
Border encounters: ~8.6 million
Known “gotaways”: ~2 million
Visa overstays: ~1 million
Parole programs: ~1.3 million
Untracked / uncounted illegals: ~1 million
As of January 2025, the total illegal immigrant population in the U.S.—including visa overstays—is estimated at approximately 23 million. This includes roughly 4.68 million visa overstays (20% of the total), with 4.9 million predating 2021 and about 1 million added under Biden, adjusted for an estimated 1.22 million outflows. These figures are based on the highest verifiable estimates from neutral sources (DHS, MPI) and credible conservative analyses (CIS, House Committee).
For Democrats, 36.8 million illegal immigrants and non-citizens represent potential future voters—hence their relentless push for mass legalization. The Biden-Harris regime knew full well that once bodies are inside the country, deportation becomes politically untouchable—especially after children are born here and illegal immigrants are added to the census counts. The strategy is simple: once here, they almost never leave. And the census counts bodies, not citizens.
That’s how illegal immigration tilts political power. Republicans lost an estimated 8 House seats after the 2020 Census. States like Ohio, Michigan, and Alabama lost seats, while California, Texas, and Florida gained. It's not a clean partisan shift, but it overwhelmingly benefits states and cities with large non-citizen populations—and, by extension, the Democratic Party.
Conclusion: The Deadly Cost of Progressive Rule
The Biden-Harris administration’s progressive dogma—de facto open borders, lax enforcement, performative “compassion,” and institutionalized denial—unleashed the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. It wasn’t a policy misstep. It was the foreseeable result of governing through ideology—not reality, and not in the interest of the American people.
Over 150,000 excess fentanyl deaths—avoidable, predictable, and directly tied to open-border decisions made by political operatives propping up a cognitively diminished figurehead. They dismantled proven deterrents, empowered traffickers, and normalized drug use without consequence. And when the body count soared, they buried the data and censored the truth.
This is progressive governance stripped of euphemism: dead Americans, broken cities, cartel-controlled borders, and a population silenced by digital and legacy media suppression. The real failure was ideological—so detached from reality it mistakes permissiveness for empathy and self-destruction for justice.
The path forward is clear: Secure the border. Enforce the law. Treat addiction with urgency and strength—not with slogans or surrender. Anything less isn’t just failure—it’s complicity. And the bodies piling up in morgues prove it.
Governing by Autopen
By Biden’s final year, the White House relied on an autopen to sign major legislation—a bleak metaphor for a presidency managed by unelected progressive operatives. In 2024, 74% of executive orders were signed by autopen. In the final months of his presidency, that number reached 100% (Oversight Project). These weren’t Biden’s policies—they were the mandates of far-left ideologues acting through a hollowed presidency, answering not to voters, but to the activist wing of the Democratic Party.
