Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is requesting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to share updated data and estimates on fentanyl overdose deaths. The House Homeland Security Committee chairman wrote a letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on March 1 asking for the most recent statistics on fentanyl and fentanyl-related overdose deaths from 2022….
How Can You Focus on Rights of Criminals, Not Children? Grieving Mom Asks Lawmakers
“How can you focus on the theoretical rights of criminals over the rights of our children?” Erin Rachwal, whose 19-year-old son died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021, asked members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance. “This could happen to your family,” she said. “Fentanyl does not discriminate. It is…
LIVE 9 AM ET: House Subcommittee Hearing on Fentanyl Crisis: ‘Inaction Is No Longer an Option’
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Surveillance holds a hearing at 9 a.m. ET on March 1 on “The Fentanyl Crisis in America: Inaction is No Longer an Option.” The hearing will examine the flow of fentanyl trafficked through America by criminals and drug cartels exploiting the border crisis. DEA Special…
LIVE NOW: House Subcommittee Hearing on Fentanyl Crisis: ‘Inaction Is No Longer an Option’
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Surveillance holds a hearing at 9 a.m. ET on March 1 on “The Fentanyl Crisis in America: Inaction is No Longer an Option.” The hearing will examine the flow of fentanyl trafficked through America by criminals and drug cartels exploiting the border crisis. DEA Special…
Pennsylvania County Gets Rid of ‘Sanctuary’ Status Amid Fentanyl Crisis
Butler County, Pennsylvania, has terminated its “sanctuary” designation and will now cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while dealing with illegal immigrants as the area faces a fentanyl crisis and an uptick in trafficking crimes. A sanctuary city or county does not cooperate with ICE in its efforts to remove illegal immigrants, such…
Republicans Call for US Military to Target Mexican Drug Cartels as Terrorist Groups
A 25-year United States Border Patrol agent and a Texas Sheriff told Congressional lawmakers that Mexican cartels are pushing illegal immigrants across the border in orchestrated surges to distract law enforcement from drug-smuggling operations targeting other sections of the border, contributing to the corresponding wave of deaths related to fentanyl poisoning. “Each and every day…
Senator Wants to Ensure Americans Stop Subsidizing Drug Smugglers, Human Traffickers
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said it’s time American taxpayers stopped financing the smugglers and human traffickers, and has introduced a “Stop Taxpayer Funding of Traffickers Act.” “This legislation will put an end to our tax dollars subsidizing traffickers,” Blackburn said at a press conference on Feb. 15. Blackburn said she, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss), and…
Central Texas School District Fights to Save Students From Fentanyl Poisoning
One Central Texas school district has waged war against fentanyl, a deadly illicit drug that is infiltrating nearly every town across the country. After two Hays Consolidated Independent School District (HCISD) students died within weeks of each other from fentanyl poisoning, district leaders knew they had to do everything possible to save the children. “We…
PREMIERING NOW: Kash Patel: Biden Administration Diverts Attention From National Security Failures—From Chinese Spy Balloon to Fentanyl Crisis
“I can tell you without equivocation that during my tenure, there was not one shred of intelligence that came across that showed that even the possibility of a balloon from the Chinese Communist Party or otherwise was going to cross the territorial waters of the United States of America,” says Kash Patel. Defense officials have…
Kash Patel: Biden Administration Diverts Attention From National Security Failures—From Chinese Spy Balloon to Fentanyl Crisis
“I can tell you without equivocation that during my tenure, there was not one shred of intelligence that came across that showed that even the possibility of a balloon from the Chinese Communist Party or otherwise was going to cross the territorial waters of the United States of America,” says Kash Patel. Defense officials have…
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