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A man who entered the country as an asylum seeker will be spending five years in federal prison for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy responsible for moving thousands of pills. The man had previously requested asylum, claiming “credible fear” of Mexican cartels.

Federal prosecutors filed narco-terrorism charges against leading members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The move is the first of its kind following the February designation by the U.S. State Department of six Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations.

In a stunning display of journalistic malpractice, CNN recently aired an interview with a member of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump Administration.

A cell of the Sinaloa Cartel operated in four major U.S. cities. The cartel conducted a large-scale drug distribution operation throughout the western part of the country that led federal authorities to the largest fentanyl seizure to date.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced financial sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities allegedly involved in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network linked to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). The sanctions have been coordinated through the Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in conjunction with multiple federal law enforcement agencies. The intent is to disrupt the CJNG cartel’s ability to continue reaping profits from fentanyl trafficking and large-scale fuel smuggling activities.

The Trump administration has seized “over 22 million fentanyl laced pills” in its first 100 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this week.

“It’s time to take President Trump’s southern border playbook to the north,” Building America’s Future (BAF) makes clear in its latest campaign, reviewed first by Breitbart News.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the targeting of a cartel boss behind one of the largest fentanyl seizures in Mexican history.

Trafficking fentanyl into the United States Is a billion-dollar enterprise for the Mexican drug cartels, the Treasury Department reported.

President Donald Trump called on GOP Sens. Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul to block Democrats’ effort to undo his Canada tariffs.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) stated that President Joe Biden “did take big steps during his administration” to secure the border and that Biden “also was focused on cracking down on fentanyl in a

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a memo this week it opposes ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada to the flow of illicit drugs across the northern border.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal alien with prior drug trafficking convictions on Wednesday in Philadelphia, and she was not happy about it.

Mexican authorities tried to take a share of the credit for a large-scale meth seizure that was carried out by officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Roma, Texas.

Las autoridades mexicanas intentaron obtener parte del crédito por una incautación de metanfetamina a gran escala que en realidad fue realizada por oficiales de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) de Estados Unidos en Roma, Texas.

Mexican authorities seized $6.5 million worth of fentanyl stashed inside boxes of sliced cactus, a Mexican food staple called nopales. 

China accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of “fueling an ideological confrontation” by keeping pace with China’s military spending.

Vice President President JD Vance visited the U.S. Southern Border on Wednesday where he said Mexico’s commitment to stopping the flow of fentanyl will help lift the Trump administration’s tariffs.

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday rolled out his “Canada First” response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, borrowing Trump’s branding strategy while insisting his tariffs on Canadian goods are “unjustified.”

USMCA compliant cars may get a lower tariff rate or be exempted altogether, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview Wednesday.

During an interview that took place during NBC’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s speech before Congress, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) responded to a question on President Donald Trump using tariffs to try to get other countries to do more about

Biden did little as fentanyl smugglers killed roughly 300,000 Americans on his watch, but Trump has quickly imposed painful tariffs on the countries that are helping those smugglers. 

The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued an impassioned condemnation of President Donald Trump on Friday after he announced a plan to impose an extra ten-percent tariff on Chinese goods in March in response to China’s role in the American fentanyl crisis.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not ruling out military strikes on fentanyl labs in Mexico, he said in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.

President Donald Trump has confirmed that his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will begin on March 4, with an “additional 10 percent tariff” likely to be charged to China.

The Senate Special Committee on Aging holds a hearing on combatting America’s ongoing opioid epidemic on Wednesday, February 26.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reintroduced legislation to allow the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the processing and removal of migrants illegally entering the country in response to the fentanyl-related public health emergency, Breitbart News learned exclusively Wednesday.

Mexico’s government has been hyping up minor seizures and cartel arrests as part of a PR strategy attempting to appease the Trump administration. Trump officials highlighted Meixco’s inaction against cartels and corruption. The American president has threatened them with tariffs and other punitive measures.

Multiple news outlets report that the CIA is now stepping up drone flights over Mexico. The currently unarmed flights are said to be searching for fentanyl labs run by Mexican cartels designated by President Donald Trump as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Citing revelations in Peter Schweizer’s most recent book, Taiwan’s top prosecutor ordered an investigation into Zhang An Le, known as “White Wolf,” on suspicion of assisting Mexican drug cartels to produce fentanyl.

On Monday, ABC News Correspondent Matt Rivers said that after Mexico agreed to send additional National Guard troops to the border in the wake of negotiations between the United States and Mexico after the threat of tariffs by President Donald

The fentanyl crisis is not a drug crisis but “chemical warfare against the American people,” Rep. Addison McDowell (R-NC) said.

Ricardo Leal, a forensic expert at the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox), warned of the dangers of the nitazenes synthetic super-opioids arriving to Brazil from China in an interview published by the Argentine outlet Infobae on Friday.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.

President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on China included a provision that eliminates the controversial “de minimis” exemption for small import shipments.