Drug Cartels

Staring down the increasing possibility of becoming just the second cabinet official in U.S. history to be impeached, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has finally admitted that his agency is not upholding the rule of law at the border.

Ohio businessman and Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno on Tuesday launched his second ad as part of a $2 million statewide ad campaign highlighting his support for former President Donald Trump’s “America First” border policies.

The allure of a fast-paced life filled with danger and luxury attracted several women to the arms of drug traffickers and a life of crime after joining their lover’s criminal organization. While these cartels operate in Mexico, U.S. citizens have also fallen in love with Mexican drug lords and have faced dire consequences afterward.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy laid out his vision Monday for what he sees as a foreign policy platform based on realism — which fuses approaches fostered by Presidents George Washington, James Monroe, and Richard Nixon — with a focus on ending the Ukraine war and the looming threat of communist China. 

President Joe Biden’s Cuban-born border chief is accelerating his transfer of poor Cuban migrants into Americans’ society and the U.S. economy.

Texas Republican Chip Roy slammed the Biden administration Tuesday for relinquishing border control to violent cartels, calling for the president to “go straight to hell” over his attempts to fight efforts to ensure safe borders.

During an interview with the Fox News Channel on Friday aired on Saturday’s broadcast of “Fox News Live,” outgoing Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said that the United States is not doing enough to combat Mexican drug cartels and argued

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno believes the United States needs to declare Mexican drug cartels “foreign terrorist organizations and wipe them off of the face of the earth,” he told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday.

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he supports a proposal from Reps. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) that would authorize the use of military force against Mexican drug cartels to target the criminal enterprises and dismantle them.

Rep. Waltz said the U.S. needs to begin treating the cartels like terrorist cells like Al Qaeda or ISIS to effectively defeat them.

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.

Various Mexican news outlets are reporting that Mexico’s government has been exaggerating the number of drug-producing labs being seized. The allegations come at a time when various U.S. politicians have accused Mexico’s government of not doing enough to stop drug cartels.

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

The House Committee on Homeland Security is using its first hearing to show how cartels carry drugs through the border region, setting up a fight with Democrats who are determined to downplay the civic damage caused by illegal migration and the drug cartels.

ROCHESTER, New Hampshire – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared a plan Wednesday to stop spending money in Ukraine and “reprioritize” foreign policy focus to take on China economically and the Mexican drug cartels militarily, using “airstrikes, drone strikes” and “special forces” to create “shock and awe.”

A drive-by shooting at a church memorial service in London that left four women and two children injured, including a seven-year-old girl still fighting for her life, may have been linked to a Colombian drug cartel.

Former President Donald Trump issued a new policy on drug cartels Thursday, vowing to “wage war” on them and to treat them like the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, which he fought aggressively in his first term in office.

Amid record seizures, authorities in Belgium are now reportedly struggling to get rid of what has been described as a “mountain” of cocaine.

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.

Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona, ripped Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and President Joe Biden for the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico Border, asserting they “turned over” the border “to murderous drug cartels.”

The new president of Colombia is looking to stop the extradition of drug lords who negotiate with his government. Drug lords who do not negotiate would be extradited to the U.S. and other countries as they make requests.

This week, multiple seizures at the Arizona border make it abundantly clear that we are at the front lines of an unprecedented invasion as drug cartels target our communities and now our children.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Rep. John Katko (R-NY) said that cartels “are really fat and happy because of what’s going on at the border.” And are using the

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) will on Wednesday evening push the U.S. Senate to adopt via unanimous consent a resolution declaring the open U.S. border with Mexico an “invasion,” his office told Breitbart News exclusively.

More than six dozen illegal aliens, including children, were found in stash houses — likely operated by the Mexican drug cartels — in a wealthy region of Washington, D.C., a new report reveals. 

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) stated that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has “enabled the cartels to do their dirty business, basically with a laissez-faire approach, where

U.S. Senators who are also doctors released a PSA about the fentanyl crisis on Friday, calling it the “deadliest drug our nation has ever seen.” 

Boris Johnson’s government is proposing new punishments for the “middle-class coke heads” fuelling “gang violence and turf wars”, such as requiring them to surrender their passports when their football team is playing abroad.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is warning federal, state, and local law enforcement of an impending nationwide spike in fentanyl-related “mass overdose events” and reported the amount of the drug infiltrating into the United States in 2021 was enough “to kill every American.”

Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio J.D. Vance slammed his Republican opponents for jumping on the “America Last” policy on Ukraine as they claim to be “America First” as the “real crisis in our towns and cities.”

Rep. Greg Steube told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that Biden could face investigations into his China ties and open border policies.

A report from the U.S. Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking concludes that overdose deaths cost the U.S. $1 trillion annually.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that the “dirty little secret” that Democrat President Joe Biden is keeping from Americans with regard to the southern border crisis is that suspected terrorists are among those illegally crossing.

Fights between rival gangs linked to Mexico’s two top drug cartels broke out in Ecuador’s Litoral penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil between Tuesday and Thursday, killing at least 116 inmates, five of whom were beheaded.

Democrats are undermining the Border Patrol’s morale with disingenuous and fraudulent narratives of “racism” relating to border security, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that internal Facebook documents reveal that the company was aware of drug cartels and human trafficking on its platform and failed to take appropriate action against them.