Trump's drug czar battles Wasserman Schultz on the border: 'A wall will actually cut it'

The nation’s top narcotics control official told Congress Thursday that the nearly 1,800 pounds of fentanyl seized at the southern U.S. border since 2017 is one reason why President Trump’s border wall will help tame the opioid crisis.

James W. Carroll Jr., director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, also told the House Oversight Committee that U.S. Border Patrol agents, which are stationed between points of entry, have seized 6,500 pounds of cocaine in fiscal 2018 and 8,100 pounds of cocaine in the first five months of 2019.