SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The fentanyl crisis continues to devastate families all across America, including here in KELOLAND.If you ask the experts, they will tell you there are no easy answers. They say we are starting to make strides in fighting the fentanyl crisis, but yet a lot more needs t o be done. That's why Congressman Dusty Johnson hosted a round table discussion in Sioux Falls Friday on fentanyl. The round table discussion lasted about an hour with input from law enforcement officials, politicians and even family members who have been impacted directly by this deadly epidemic. They focused on three main areas; the problem, solutions, and prevention, because as they say 'we can't arrest our way out of this.' We know fentanyl is everywhere in the U.S. "I fear we've almost become numb to it and we just can't afford to have that be the case," Congressman Johnson said. 2 arrested in rape, abuse case That's why today's round table discussion on fentanyl first focused on the problem and where the supply is coming from. Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead chairs the National Sheriff's Drug Enforcement Committee that represents over three thousand of the nation's sheriffs. "I would probably say 90% of the fentanyl and meth coming into South Dakota today comes with a precursor from China, it goes to Mexico where drug cartels, in particular the two major ones, will either make it into powder or they'll synthesize it or stamp it into counterfeit pills," Milstead said. Milstead says it's been flooding into the U-S and even into KELOLAND at an unprecedented rate. Last year eight people died in Minnehaha County due to fentanyl poisoning. Congressman Dusty Johnson offers a partial solution to the crisis with a few new laws. "This is a little bit of a scoop because they have not been introduced yet in this Congress, one codifies severe sanctions against the Chinese Communist party, party officers, government officials we know have either turned a blind eye toward these precursor chemicals or have actively been involved in facilitating their shipment to north America," Johnson said. The second proposed law He's offering would go after the ships that are bringing fentanyl into the U-S with other legitimate commercial goods. "Which means we can use that legal framework at our ports to say we know you have been bad boys and bad girls, thousands have died because of you and we will hit you, Americans will hit with a new substantial port fee or penalty because of your failure to do enough to stop this," Johnson said. The roundtable discussion also brought up the fact, even if we could stop fentanyl from coming into the U-S today, there's already enough supply of it being stored here to last at least a decade. ...read more read less