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In an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Monday, Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, discussed Democrat efforts to prevent President Donald Trump’s construction of a border wall through the use of the

The Washington Post on Wednesday published a searing indictment of the Obama administration for disregarding a plea from health experts to declare a public health emergency for overdoses from fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that was already racking up a body count in 2016 and would go on to kill thousands of people over the next three years.

U.S. law enforcement, intelligence, and military officials have determined that China is the primary source of the illegal use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl fueling the deadly drug overdose epidemic gripping the United States, but Beijing claimed this week that China has nothing to do with the crisis.

First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday awarded youth and met with administration officials tackling the deadly opioid epidemic plaguing the United States.

It has been confirmed through autopsy that Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the now-defunct video sharing platform Vine, died of an accidental drug overdose in December. Kroll reportedly has a mixture of drugs in his system including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.

A Kentucky woman, who tried to smuggle nearly 2,000 fentanyl pills into the United States from Mexico in her underwear and vagina, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges this week in South Texas.

A Boston man already accused of causing the fentanyl death of his 11-year-old niece is now also charged with raping her.

The U.S. government will try to end most catch-and-release policies on Friday by sending migrants back to Mexico pending their asylum hearings in the United States, according to Reuters. 

Former police officer and Turning Point USA Director of Urban Engagement Brandon Tatum told Breitbart News on Sunday that securing the United States border is crucial, as the nation is also dealing with the severe consequences of illegal drugs pouring into the country.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) called out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for opposing a wall along the United States-Mexico border while she enjoys security and a fence around her home.

President Trump’s support among Hispanic American voters has soared as he is refusing to buckle to pressure from Republicans and Democrats to reopen the federal government without funding for his proposed wall along the United States-Mexico border. 

According to National Safety Council’s grim death statistics, whatever is being stopped along our porous border is nowhere near enough. The problem is getting worse as Democrats party in Puerto Rico.

A journalist reporting live on the mass fentanyl overdose in California on Saturday was attacked during the broadcast, according to video footage of the incident.

The lack of taxpayer payments to Central American economic migrants is the crisis on the border, says California Democrat Scott Peters, who presented the party’s weekend message. 

A massive fentanyl overdose incident in California on Saturday left one person dead and sent a dozen others to the hospital, police said.

Federal immigration officials seized enough fentanyl — one of the deadliest drugs in the world — last year to kill nearly twice the entire population of the United States. 

Terrorists could potentially use fentanyl – a synthetic opioid is mainly produced in China that is the primary source behind the fatal overdose epidemic in the United States – as a “weapon of mass destruction,” Bloomberg News recently reported, citing experts and echoing other articles.

China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper published an article Wednesday blaming America’s lack of “values” for its opioid crisis and in particular the use of fentanyl, a highly deadly opioid primarily manufactured in China.

American life expectancy declined again last year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), adding up to the worst four-year decline since 1915-1918, when mortality rates were driven by the infamous meat grinder of World War One and a deadly flu pandemic.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested 50 illegal aliens who are suspected of drug dealing and trafficking in a raid that spread across the New England area’s sanctuary cities. 

The White House announced Saturday that President Trump has agreed not to further raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.

The left is shrieking about President Donald Trump committing “war crimes” at the border by using tear gas to disperse a mob of violent migrants, while the media try very hard to keep anyone from remembering the sainted Barack Obama repeatedly did the same thing. All of these hysterics are curiously silent about the real chemical weapons attack perpetrated at the U.S. border: the fentanyl epidemic.

HOUSTON, Texas — Firefighters on the northeast side of Harris County discovered what appears to be a drug lab and distribution warehouse while responding to a townhouse “blaze.” Investigators from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office report they seized nearly $3 million in heroin, methamphetamine, and what they believe to be fentanyl.

In the 2016 presidential election, “Law and order” became a hallmark of President Trump’s campaign, wherein he would routinely blast weak-on-crime politicians.

The First Step Act — dubbed “prison release” by conservatives and law enforcement officials — will reduce sentences for drug traffickers while immediately resulting in the release of 4,000 inmates. 

Preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) over the summer suggest the rate of drug overdose deaths is declining or at least has “begun to plateau,” as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar put it last week.

Law enforcement officials near Boston, Massachusetts. arrested two Dominican nationals in connection with the seizure of over 70 pounds (32 kilograms) of fentanyl. The drugs have an alleged street value of $28.8 million dollars.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is “not making us safer” just weeks after ICE agents conducted a live-saving drug seizure. 

Fox News journalist and investigative reporter Sara Carter joined Breitbart News Daily Friday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to talk about the new documentary on opioids, Not in Vein.

SANTA MONICA, California — Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams looks thoughtful in in the lobby of a beachfront hotel on a sunny Thursday afternoon as he tells me that the phrase “jobs not mobs,” which he suggested on Twitter six days

Conservative leaders are asking President Trump to oppose prison reform legislation, telling him to “trust” his instincts and calling the bill “prison release.”

The United States “needs a bigger stick” to stop the inflow of Chinese-made fentanyl drugs into the United States, Homeland Defense secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Oct. 10. 

On Monday, the Senate approved broad legislation against the opioid shipments from China and Mexico that Trump called “almost a form of warfare.”

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) — one of President Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress — exclusively told Breitbart News that abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency would have exposed Americans to “200 million lethal doses of fentanyl” just last year. 

A Pennsylvania mother is facing homicide charges after she gave her 17-month-old daughter a drink containing fentanyl in a sippy cup, police said.

It would be excessive to call the opioid crisis an orchestrated conspiracy, but it certainly does have aspects of a manufactured crisis: a problem created by politicians and then exploited by them to advance various agendas. Loose borders created the problem by allowing a tidal wave of deadly street drugs into the United States. Politicians are using the resulting crisis to attack the pharmaceutical industry and the criminal justice system. We could end up releasing an enormous number of criminals from prison because the drug epidemic put too many people in jail.