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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.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law designating drug cartels to be “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.” The new law will expand the state’s ability to fight the activities of Mexican drug cartels in connection to human smuggling, drug smuggling, money laundering, and other organized criminal activities.

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.

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.

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.

Mexico’s president sent friendly greetings to an imprisoned drug lord who has been singled out by the U.S. as the mastermind behind the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. The politician also said he is not opposed to releasing him from jail.

Illegal immigration amounts to a “full-blown invasion,” said Bernie Moreno, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio.

As the 2022 midterms approach, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) told Breitbart News Saturday she is confident Republicans will take back the House.

FRANKLIN, Tennessee — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to the border last week was “93 days late,” and even though she finally went there, “she went to the wrong address.”

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

Democrats use illegal immigration to change American demographics for political benefit, Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) told Breitbart News on Sunday.

President Joe Biden has only “paused” construction of the border wall funded by Congress in 2020, so he is not really violating budget laws, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).