Under Trump, U.S. Customs Stopped 12,700 Pounds of Deadly Fentanyl
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported seizing 12,743 pounds of fentanyl since January 2025, during Donald Trump's second term, attributing the success to stricter border enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security credited these efforts with preventing potentially billions of lethal doses from reaching communities. The report contrasts current policies with those of the Biden administration, which it claims contributed to increased fentanyl trafficking and overdose deaths.
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Under Trump, U.S. Customs Stopped 12,700 Pounds of Deadly Fentanyl Catherine Salgado | 2:20 PM on April 30, 2026 Drug Enforcement Administration via AP, File U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has stopped considerably more than 10,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl from entering the United States since Donald Trump took office, a radical and extreme contrast to the open border policies of the Biden administration that fueled fentanyl deaths. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a press release on April 29 stating it was National Fentanyl Awareness Day and praising customs and border officers who have made such great progress…
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