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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 2.8 tons of methamphetamine and fentanyl at a commercial border crossing in California. Officers found the deadly drugs in a shipment of plastic household items.

The unprecedented number of U.S. drug overdose deaths last year exceeded the fatalities in the world’s top five deadliest war zones. 

A North Texas sheriff told former President Donal Trump his county is seeing a 50 percent increase in the number of deaths related to fentanyl being smuggled from Mexico. His comments came during President Trump’s tour of the Rio Grande Valley with Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

During a portion of an interview with NBC aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” El Paso, Texas Sector Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez stated that “For the first time” “fentanyl is being smuggled” into the United States “between the

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials seized 934 pounds of fentanyl at the southern border in May, a 300 percent increase over last May, according to CBP data.

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.

A man who allegedly sold a fatal dose of the drug fentanyl to a high school senior in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, was recently arrested for murder.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) stated that there has been a nearly “800% increase April over April” in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border apprehended by the Texas

A traffic stop resulted in Indiana State Police Troopers finding $2 million worth of meth and fentanyl on Monday afternoon.

More than twice as many Americans in San Francisco, California, died from drug overdoses in 2020 as they did from the Chinese coronavirus, data reveals. 

The nation’s epidemic of drug deaths is being worsened by President Joe Biden’s refusal to guard the border, GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters on Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s half-open, half-closed border is creating chaos south of the border — and is pulverizing his support among Latino and independent voters north of the border.

House Democrats blocked a Republican motion Wednesday that would have extended the Drug Enforcement Agency’s authority to combat the trafficking of fentanyl analogs.

President Joe Biden’s border and immigration policies are killing Americans by increasing drug trafficking into the U.S. from Mexico, said Sen. Bill Hagerty on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing

Parents who recently bought a Glo Worm doll for their child at a thrift store in Arizona found thousands of fentanyl pills stashed inside the toy.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden’s administration amid reports that his deputies will minimize the deportation of illegal migrants who are caught dealing drugs.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents seized 69 pounds of methamphetamine and fentanyl after stopping three illegal immigrants who had just crossed from Mexico. Officials estimate the drugs to be worth more than $3 million.

Drug overdoses have killed 621 people in San Francisco this year, nearly four times as many as have been killed by COVID-19, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

An illegal alien who previously was shielded from arrest and deported by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has been charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

As the media pushes the idea of a Biden-Harris administration as an inevitability, let’s play their game and look at what such a presidency would be like. What matters is what they would do on the crucial issues facing our nation. On immigration—arguably the most existential issue to our future—a Biden presidency would be nothing short of disastrous for our country. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested two Texas women in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs through a U.S.-Mexico Border crossing. The women reportedly tried to move more than $800,000 in methamphetamine and fentanyl into Texas.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in El Paso arrested a mother traveling with three children after finding drugs taped to her teenage son’s body. Officials report the U.S. citizen woman attempted to use her teen son to smuggle methamphetamine and fentanyl into Texas.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Otay Mesa, California, seized a near-record 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin at a commercial port of entry. The seizure is the second-largest seizure along the southwest border with Mexico in the agency’s history.

Customs and Border Protection officers in San Diego and Tucson seized more than 400 pounds of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl over the past weekend. The seizures took place at ports of entry in California and Arizona.

The California Department of Public Health released a report that showed deaths from drug overdoses increased 70% in San Francisco last year.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Los Angeles Angels employee has been charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in connection with last year’s overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, prosecutors in Texas announced Friday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents seized more than 420 pounds of methamphetamine and fentanyl in three separate incidents in Southern California.

Drug seizures jumped 50 percent in June under the combined efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s officers and agents. Included in these is a nearly 70 percent increase in cocaine and a 151 percent rise in fentanyl.

Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 260 pounds of drugs as a woman allegedly attempted to move them through an Arizona port of entry. The interdiction led to the seizure of 51 pounds of fentanyl, 91 pounds of heroin, and 113 pounds of methamphetamine.

The 2020 election just became about China — in a big way. And the result could determine whether the United States prevails, or fails, in the fight to protect our freedom.

An illegal alien has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after leading a drug trafficking operation in Rhode Island that trafficked fentanyl and cocaine. 

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a human stash house on Friday. The raid followed a traffic stop by Nogales, Arizona, police officers which identified two Mexican illegal immigrants in a vehicle.

Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 300,000 fentanyl pills, 25 pounds of heroin, and six pounds of cocaine at the Port of Nogales border crossing. The incident occurred as a U.S. citizen male allegedly attempted to smuggle the drugs into the country from Mexico.

The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times published a column on Monday declaring that the Chinese people are undergoing a cultural “Enlightenment” during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that makes their culture and society superior to the West.

The rising rates of suicides, drug overdoses, and other “Deaths of Despair” are spreading from blue-collar white Americans to the broader group of Americans who hold lower-wage college degrees, says Angus Deaton, one of two professors who detected the post-2000 epidemic.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than 167 pounds of methamphetamine and fentanyl at an interior immigration checkpoint in southwest Arizona. The seizure followed an alert by a Border Patrol K-9 during the inspection.