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During an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued for U.S. intervention in Mexico against drug cartels responsible for the “killing of hundreds of thousands” of Americans.

Following the killing and kidnapping of American citizens in Mexico by suspected drug traffickers, Republican officials slammed President Biden’s open border policies while calling his presidency “the best thing that ever happened” to the drug cartels and blaming the Biden team for having “empowered” them.

The Northern Command Commander admitted that President Joe Biden has never asked him for a briefing on the southern border.

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated that drug cartel “traffickers and the people selling it for them are all over social media” and that social media companies are failing to do enough to

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called for President Joe Biden to threaten China with sanctions unless they are transparent about the origins of the coronavirus and stop fentanyl precursors from being

President Joe Biden sparked criticism Wednesday night after he laughed briefly while discussing a mother who lost her two sons to fentanyl.

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.”

The mother of two children killed by fentanyl poisoning slammed the federal government’s extravagant support for illegal migrants in a House hearing on Tuesday.

AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott told Breitbart Texas that the state’s border security mission is saving lives across the nation by seizing fentanyl that slipped past Border Patrol and CBP. Operation Lone Star saved more lives by stopping nearly 25,000 criminal aliens from making their way into the U.S. interior, according to the state.

Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) on Tuesday endorsed Rep. Jim Banks’ (R-IN) bid to replace the outgoing Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN). 

Americans see opioids and fentanyl as the number one health threat in the country, according to an Axios-Ipsos Health Index survey published Thursday.

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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials report fentanyl smugglers are significantly increasing their use of the U.S. Postal Service and other express consignment carriers to bring the deadly drugs into the United States.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 12,000 pounds of fentanyl during the first four months of Fiscal Year 23. This nearly equals the nearly 12,500 pounds seized during the entire previous fiscal year.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) is calling for an increase in penalties for fentanyl possession amid revelations that five Nevada sheriffs were hospitalized for possible fentanyl exposure after a drug bust. 

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. 

Overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 for those aged 10 to 19. Suicide attempts by the young jumped by 40 percent between 2019 and 2021.

Most voters give President Biden a “poor” or “fair” rating for how he is handling the fentanyl crisis in the country, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. 

Joe Biden is “aging,” “confused,” and “clearly just not fully there,” Sen. J.D. Vance said in regards to the president’s declining cognition.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said on Tuesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow that effective southern border security and interdiction of illicit drug trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border requires effective coordination with Mexican government authorities.

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.

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.

“Students will be able to carry Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose, in Los Angeles,” reports the far-left Los Angeles Times.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) argued that “we need to secure the border more” and stated that he is strongly concerned “about all the fentanyl that’s pouring

The House’s new GOP majority is holding a hearing about President Joe Biden’s easy-migration policies at the border. 

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.

The rise in “deaths of despair” among middle-aged white Americans may be linked to the decline in religious practice, according to new research.

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Huntington, WV Mayor Steve Williams (D) stated that “fentanyl coming from China is a weapon of mass destruction.” And invoked President Joe Biden calling the drug problem a national security threat in the 1980s.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, this week and used the opportunity to draw attention to the ongoing fentanyl crisis in the United States and urged Congress to secure the southern border.

“We are doing that which needs to be done” to counter cartel-delivered fentanyl and other drugs that killed more than 100,000 Americans in 2021, President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief told the Washington Post.

A Vancouver man named Jerry Martin is floating a business plan to open a store that would sell crack, meth, and heroin over the counter as soon as British Columbia decriminalizes hard drugs — a policy announced in May and scheduled to take effect on January 31, 2023.

On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) stated that Mexico can do more to work with the United States on fighting crime and drugs and that the Mexican government sometimes fails to act on intelligence

A New Jersey middle school teacher is facing charges after he overdosed on fentanyl in front of a classroom of students.

Homeless people are dying in the doorways of storefronts on the streets of L.A. amid a nationwide surge in deaths among the homeless population in the midst of a cold and stormy winter.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday took great exception to the new chairman of the House Select Committee on China, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), describing the controversial Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok as “digital fentanyl.”