Jan 13, 2025 · Throughout the 2024 election, Trump promised to end the fentanyl crisis, pledging to crackdown on illegal immigration and strengthen border control. For many grief-stricken families, his...

Feb 11, 2022 · The first time monthly fentanyl seizures saw a sizable spike over the last four years was in June of 2020 under former President Donald Trump when Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized 713...

Mar 2, 2023 · Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids soared during the time Donald Trump was president, raising questions about efforts to blame the Biden administration’s border policies for drug overdose...

1 day ago · A few hours later, President Trump also addressed cross-border drug trafficking — but in his case to lay blame on Canada, at least in part, for a deadly fentanyl scourge.

Nov 18, 2024 · During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised sweeping change that would protect U.S. families from fentanyl overdose deaths. Critics say many of his ideas are unlikely to work and...

Aug 16, 2024 · Former President Donald Trump claimed at a recent campaign rally that more than 300,000 Americans are dying each year from the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, and that the number of fentanyl...

Dec 7, 2024 · Trump has claimed fentanyl overdoses kill 300,000 people annually, a toll he said is "probably much more," while incoming "border czar" Tom Homan alleged in a Fox News interview earlier this...

Jan 23, 2025 · President Donald Trump signs executive orders at the White House on Monday. ... Just 43 pounds of fentanyl were confiscated at the northern border in the 2024 fiscal year — 0.2 percent of the ...

3 days ago · With past policies having failed to curb fentanyl deaths, President Donald Trump now looks set to turn to another tool to fight America’s drug problem: trade policy.

Nov 26, 2024 · Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the roles of the drug trade, particularly fentanyl, and immigration from Mexico in Donald Trump’s 2024 Presidential-election win.