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Rebecca Kiessling, who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning, said many parents in support groups blame Joe Biden for their children’s deaths.

A Pennsylvania county has ended its “sanctuary” status for illegal aliens as the nation’s fentanyl crisis has hit the community, spilling over from the United States-Mexico border.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Republican Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) have introduced a measure to stop drug and human traffickers from benefiting from U.S. tax dollars, even after they are charged with a crime.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an illegal alien into the United States who was later convicted of drug trafficking in Brazil.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) shouted, “It’s your fault,” at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union Address when he raised concerns about fentanyl deaths.

Urban violence and shootings have become so common in an area in France that one resident has compared the area to the Ukraine war.

European investigators have shut down an encrypted communication service that was used as a secure channel for organized crime, they say.

CARACAS – Venezuela ranked as the most corrupt country in the Americas in 2022, surpassing Haiti and the other authoritarian regimes in the region, Cuba and Nicaragua, according to Transparency International’s 28th Annual Corruption Perceptions Index released this week.

The Colombian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that cocaine seizures in 2022 added up to 671 metric tons, which was 1.7 tonnes more than the already record-setting total from 2021. 

Drug traffickers in the no-go zone suburbs of Paris are allegedly offering illegals 200 euros per day to violently attack local police who try and interfere with their drug-selling operations.

The number of murders and attempted murders in France between known criminals is up 25% this year, with violence linked to drug trafficking.

CARACAS – U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry shook hands with Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro — whom the U.S has an active $15 million bounty on — in Egypt at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on Tuesday

A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) worker admitted to embezzling mail packages that contained fentanyl and methamphetamine for thousands of dollars.

Police in Buckeye, Arizona, seized nearly 400,000 fentanyl pills during a traffic stop on a local highway on October 23. The seizure follows the capture of another 577,000 fentanyl pills at an Arizona/Mexico border crossing over the weekend and another 400,000 fentanyl pills the weekend before.

The DEA announced Tuesday that a task force team busted a New Jersey woman trafficking approximately 15,000 rainbow fentanyl pills stuffed in Lego boxes in Manhattan. The drug agency noted that this “significant seizure” of the colored pills was the largest in New York City’s history.

The Biden administration’s exchange of two convicted Venezuelan drug traffickers related to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in exchange for seven imprisoned American citizens drew a barrage of criticism this weekend, particularly given the precedent set by the Trump administration with the release of American citizen Joshua Holt.

Officials are raising the alarm that children are being targeted by drug cartels ahead of the Halloween season after authorities discovered 15,000 fentanyl pills hidden in candy packaging in Connecticut.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgium’s justice minister remained under protection Monday after four people suspected of taking part in a plot by alleged drugs criminals to kidnap him were arrested in the Netherlands.

Venezuelan socialist Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami – a U.S.-designated drug kingpin – announced on Thursday that his regime has formally requested 23 “international warrants” and contacted Interpol to arrest legitimate President Juan Guaidó and the former president of Colombia, Iván Duque.

Phoenix police detectives seized approximately one million fentanyl pills in a suburban home. Detectives arrested two suspected drug traffickers and seized a handgun in what they call the largest one-time seizure of fentanyl pills in the department’s history.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated specific Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and ordered the Department of Public Safety to begin dismantling their infrastructure. The move comes as record levels of the deadly drug fentanyl are being pushed across the border.

House Republicans are elevating the issue of fentanyl by mapping out their agenda to combat a growing epidemic they say is worsening because of Biden administration policies.

The Taliban jihadist terror organization confirmed the arrival in Afghanistan on Monday of convicted heroin “kingpin” Bashir Noorzai, a terrorist-affiliated warlord the administration of leftist President Joe Biden freed in exchange for American engineer Mark Frerichs.

Parents whose children died after unknowingly ingesting fentanyl joined House Republicans at a roundtable Thursday to tell their stories and implore Congress to act on the growing epidemic.

Fentanyl deaths and drug trafficking are on the rise in Nevada, largely due to President Joe Biden’s open border and Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak’s “soft-on-crime” policies, Republican gubernatorial candidate Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told Breitbart News.

Officials in Saudi Arabia this week seized approximately 47 million amphetamine pills found hidden inside flour bags.

Violent Albanian criminals are illegally returning to the UK after being deported as boat migrants from the country surge.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) pushed legislation he is set to introduce that would require social media platforms to reach out to law enforcement officials whenever there is illegal drug trafficking

The amount of fentanyl seized nationwide tripled in July to 203 percent compared to the month of June, according to CBP data.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized over half a tonne of Colombian cocaine at the London Gateway port. 

A Chinese drug trafficking syndicate known as the “Bang de Fujian” has been building a high-tech indoor marijuana cultivating empire in Chile since at least 2020, multiple news reports in the country confirmed this week, citing the Investigations Police of Chile (PDI).

Two men facing charges for trafficking fentanyl in late June failed to appear at a court hearing in California on Thursday, Fox News reported.

Migrant drug dealers in Italy are accused of carrying out brutal acts of torture, with Police saying they are aware of the situation.

Nevada U.S. Senate Candidate Adam Laxalt detailed the “humanitarian crisis” he saw while visiting the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend.

President Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview last week that President Joe Biden should take more action to prevent drug trafficking out of Venezuela, suggesting that Biden’s decision to “negotiate oil” with the repressive Venezuelan socialist regime may be negatively impacting law enforcement efforts.

A laboratory manufacturing the illegal narcotic ecstasy (MDMA) was discovered on a Belgian NATO base that houses nuclear weapons, with two people arrested in the case, according to prosecutors.