Drug Cartels - Page 2

A report from the U.S. Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking concludes that overdose deaths cost the U.S. $1 trillion annually.

Fights between rival gangs linked to Mexico’s two top drug cartels broke out in Ecuador’s Litoral penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil between Tuesday and Thursday, killing at least 116 inmates, five of whom were beheaded.

Democrats are undermining the Border Patrol’s morale with disingenuous and fraudulent narratives of “racism” relating to border security, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that internal Facebook documents reveal that the company was aware of drug cartels and human trafficking on its platform and failed to take appropriate action against them.

Illegal immigration amounts to a “full-blown invasion,” said Bernie Moreno, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio.

As the 2022 midterms approach, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) told Breitbart News Saturday she is confident Republicans will take back the House.

FRANKLIN, Tennessee — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to the border last week was “93 days late,” and even though she finally went there, “she went to the wrong address.”

Democrats use illegal immigration to change American demographics for political benefit, Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) told Breitbart News on Sunday.

President Joe Biden has only “paused” construction of the border wall funded by Congress in 2020, so he is not really violating budget laws, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday where he discussed “RINO” Republicans who refuse to “stand up and fight” and Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed leadership as “border czar.”

Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that the illegal immigration crisis at the United States’ southern border has turned into a “real emergency” that could spell political disaster for the Democrats following a trip to the Mexican frontier in Arizona.

Bill O’Reilly, host of No Spin News and author of Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America, told Breitbart News on Monday organized crime in the form of Mexican criminal cartels and their domestic partners “love” President Joe Biden.

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) plans to introduce a bill Thursday, aimed at halting Vice President Kamala Harris from using taxpayer money for travel until she visits the southern border and creates a plan to deal with the crisis there.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a press conference Wednesday along the U.S. border with Mexico that included sheriffs from cities across the state who are “overwhelmed” by the surge of thousands of migrants entering the United States illegally.

Top Republican this week requested a briefing from DHS about human smugglers “brazenly” advertising safe passage into the U.S. on Facebook.

Members of Albanian drug gangs are reportedly claiming to be victims of modern slavery to avoid serving jail time in Britain, as they continue their push to corner the marijuana black market. Albanian “gardeners” are being brought into the country

President Joe Biden’s deliberate decision to invite many poor Central American migrants is hurting Americans, damaging the migrants, and enriching the coyotes and cartels, GOP legislators said in a coordinated set of speeches on the House floor.

Joe Biden’s border policies fuel a humanitarian crisis that is hurting and killing migrants, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) said.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland, told lawmakers on Monday he is unaware Mexican drug cartels game the nation’s asylum system.

Activists are pressing President Joe Biden to tear down portions of the southern border wall to create pathways for wildlife.

Two Christian-majority nations — Colombia and Mexico — appeared in the ranking of the top 50 most dangerous places to be a Christian in the world published by the Christian aid organization Open Doors this week.

Drug cartels delivered toys and pastries to needy families throughout Mexico during the Epiphany celebration in yet another attempt to improve their public image. The very public outreach efforts come as Mexico’s government remains unable to curb the escalating violence taking place across the country.

In an interview with Fox and Friends, Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan said on Wednesday that the incoming Biden administration’s policies on border security and the border wall signal that America’s borders will be open to illegal migrants, drug cartels, and traffickers.

Most of those sincerely protesting a miscarriage of justice—separate from the organized goons creating chaos for their extremist agenda—have said that it is time for an honest national discussion about race and justice in America.

FBI agents arrested a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and his wife on charges they allegedly laundered millions of dollars for a Colombian drug cartel. Prosecutors alleged the couple used the agent’s position and influence to divert millions in drug proceeds from the DEA to their own personal use, including the purchase of expensive vehicles, jewelry, and vacation homes.

Fact check – CLAIM: Pete Buttigieg said he would send U.S. troops to Mexico to fight the drug cartels. VERDICT: Mostly true, though he said he would do so in partnership with Mexico.

Drug cartels’ illegal pot farms are polluting national park land in California with trash and toxins that threaten the water and wildlife.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Tuesday expressed support for President Donald Trump’s call to assist Mexico with combating drug cartels operating along the U.S.-Mexico border following the murder of nine Americans in the border state of Sonora.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States was ready for war against the drug cartels, volunteering American forces to Mexico for the job.

An unsecured U.S.-Mexico border endangers American children by assisting Mexican drug cartels engaged in child sex-trafficking, explained Joseph Travers, founder of Saved in America, in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice documented a 20-percent drop in homicides since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January, the nation’s O Globo reported Sunday.

The U.S. Coast Guard released video footage Thursday of a crewman jumping onto a moving submarine as it sped through the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Republicans in the Senate rejected an emergency border funding package crafted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Democrats on Wednesday, instead passing their own measure that more adequately lined up with President Donald Trump’s priorities.

The group of supporters met with the president in San Antonio, Texas, but agreed to speak to the media about the problems on the border. 

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News during his exclusive interview on Monday that there is an “invasion” of illegal immigration coming across the southern border.

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News on Monday that his administration is thinking “very seriously” about labeling violent Mexican drug cartels, or factions of these cartels, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).