The brave men and women of law enforcement risk their lives to keep communities safe.
Now their job is growing more dangerous under Joe Biden.
And Ron DeSantis took one bold move to protect police officers from this scary threat.
Fentanyl has become the biggest health crisis in the country because of President Joe Biden.
The Mexican drug cartels are flooding the country with the deadly synthetic opioid after he opened the southern border.
Now police officers and first responders are facing the threat of being exposed to fentanyl on the job.
As little as two milligrams of the drug can be lethal to an average adult.
Ron DeSantis signs bills to protect first responders and police from fentanyl
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed two bills into law dealing with the fentanyl crisis at the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Professional Development Center.
SB 718 makes it a second-degree felony for anyone illegally possessing fentanyl to expose a first responder to it and cause them to overdose or experience a serious injury.
“Because of the Biden administration’s unwillingness to secure the southern border, law enforcement officers are encountering fentanyl at alarming rates,” DeSantis said. “I’m signing legislation today to keep officers safe on the job, and to further combat the opioid epidemic.”
The bill also expands the protections for someone who seeks in good faith medical help for themselves or someone they know who is experiencing a drug or alcohol-related overdose.
SB 66 designates June 6 as Revive Awareness Day and instructs the Florida Department of Health to raise awareness of the dangers of opioid overdoses and the drugs that can be used to counteract them, like Narcan.
The Florida Governor also announced the Coordinated Opioid Recovery Network (CORE) has expanded to five additional counties.
DeSantis said that the CORE program has reduced the number of emergency medical responses for drug overdoses.
DeSantis blames drug crisis on the open border
DeSantis pointed out the devastating human toll that the border crisis has had on Americans.
“We have been setting records as a country from the amount of opioid overdose deaths, driven a lot by the fentanyl coming across the southern border,” DeSantis said. “We have over 100,000 Americans every year are now dying because of these drug overdoses fueled by the fentanyl crisis.”
He said law enforcement officers were being put in harm’s way dealing with the fentanyl crisis.
“You have situations where when law enforcement personnel are responding to these situations that fentanyl may be involved in, they really are putting themselves at risk because it’s not like they have to start popping pills to be affected by this,” DeSantis explained.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma thanked DeSantis for the work he has done combatting the fentanyl crisis.
“This is why people are leaving their states, moving to Florida, to follow leadership like Governor Ron DeSantis,” Lemma said. “As a result of that work in the last few years, the governor has signed into law bills that simply do not exist in other areas of the country.”
The country is paying a steep price for the consequences of Joe Biden’s open borders agenda.
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