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Oregon’s fentanyl-induced public health crisis is coming to a head, with lawmakers quickly back-tracking on drug decriminalization.

Fentanyl traffickers caught in Idaho will now receive mandatory minimum sentencing as a result of a new law passed to combat the drug crisis.

Narcan vending machines, stocked with the overdose-reversing medication, are popping up all over the country amid the fentanyl crisis.

Peter Schweizer’s new book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans” reveals how the Chinese government is using drugs, social chaos, and other means to tear apart the social fabric of the United States.

A pair of suspected drug dealers have been hit with nearly 50 charges after they allegedly tried to smuggle court documents infused with fentanyl, cocaine, and PCP into jail, New York City officials say.

An Indiana couple is facing felony neglect charges after their six-month-old baby died from fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity.

A man is mourning the loss of his 17-month-old son, blaming the baby’s mother and CPS for allegedly letting him overdose on fentanyl.

Oregon’s fentanyl overdose rate has surged by 1,530 percent over the last few years, making the state home to the worst increase in the U.S.

Local leaders around Oregon are speaking out about the dire fentanyl crisis sweeping through the state, with Republicans demanding more help.

Emergency personnel in a small Oregon city had to respond to four separate fentanyl overdoses in a span of just six hours on Tuesday. By the next day, the entire county was placed in a state of emergency due to the prominence of the deadly drug.

Idaho lawmakers are cracking down on the fentanyl crisis with a new bill slapping anyone who brings a certain amount of the deadly drug into the state with mandatory prison sentences.

Angel Mom Josephine Dunn ripped into Alejandro Mayorkas, saying he is “partially responsible” for her daughter being poisoned by fentanyl.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is once again refusing to appear before the House Homeland Security Committee.

Thanks to Joe Biden’s incompetence and wide open border, life-saving drugs are scarce, and fentanyl is killing Americans in record numbers.

Former child star Evan Ellingson died earlier this month and his cause of death has been revealed to be an accidental fentanyl overdose. 

President Joe Biden’s administration is now advising schools across the United States to keep the overdose reversal drug naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, in stock amid a surging number of fentanyl deaths among American children.

Former President Donald Trump promised to deploy the United State Navy to impose a “full Fentanyl Blockade on the waters of our region,” during a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa, on Wednesday. 

Authorities in Mexico encountered a new tactic where cartel smugglers disguise shipments of fentanyl as protein powder in shipments bound for the California border.

Las autoridades de México se han encontrado con una nueva tendencia en la que los narcotraficantes de Sinaloa disfrazan cargamentos de fentanilo como proteína en polvo que envían a la frontera con California.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents seized approximately 112 pounds of fentanyl. The seizure followed a traffic stop on Interstate 8 near the Pine Valley checkpoint on May 18.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is asking Hispanics in Florida not to vote for Ron DeSantis in his bid for the 2024 presidential nomination. The Mexican politician claims that DeSantis, much like other Republicans, is using an anti-immigrant message for political purposes.

A group of Republican Senators, led by Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, have reintroduced a plan to fight the nation’s deadly fentanyl crisis by preserving the public health authority known as Title 42 at the United States-Mexico border. 

Most voters are concerned about the fentanyl pouring over the southern border, a Convention of States Action/ Trafalgar Group survey released this week found. 

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a series of indictments targeting key leaders of the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. The indictments include three of the cartel’s Chinese fentanyl suppliers.

China’s government publicly claimed that it has no illicit Fentanyl trade with Mexico and it is up to the U.S. to stop its current opioid crisis. The statement from China comes days after Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador made international headlines by claiming that his country was not a producer of Fentanyl and it was up to the U.S. and not him to stop the flow from other countries.

President Biden has ignored repeated requests to meet and discuss the fentanyl crisis in the country, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said on Wednesday.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), facing reelection next year, is backing a crackdown on fentanyl pouring into the United States after previously blocking hundreds of millions in funding to help stop the flow of the deadly drug through the nation’s southern border.

Mexico’s president blamed the U.S. for the fentanyl crisis as pressure mounts on his administration to stop cartels.

Rep. Mary Miller proposed a resolution which would designate a non-exhaustive list of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland says there are “diplomatic concerns” with treating and designating the Mexican drug dartels as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

Rebecca Kiessling, a mother of five who lost her two sons to fentanyl poisoning, went off on a Cato Institute scholar during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing after he suggested that Americans are responsible for the nation’s fentanyl crisis. 

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.

Elected Democrats in San Francisco, California are seeking to suspend the city’s strict sanctuary law so Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents can deport illegal aliens arrested for dealing fentanyl. 

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is readying a plan that would convert Title 42, the public health authority used at the United States-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration, to fight the nation’s deadly fentanyl crisis.

Representative Buddy Carter introduced legislation that would classify Americans who died from fentanyl poisoning as crime victims.

Seattle-area health officials recently admitted they are struggling to find space to store dead bodies in the morgue due to an increase in fentanyl overdose deaths.