(7) In fiscal years 2021 and 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized over 24,000 pounds of fentanyl at ports of entry, a 200 percent increase from the amounts seized in fiscal years 2019 and 2020. (8) Deaths caused by the trafficking of illicit fentanyl have reached epidemic proportions, as— (A) fentanyl was involved in nearly 200,000 deaths in the United States during the period between 2014 and 2020