by WorldTribune Staff, June 3, 2025 Real World News
There has been a significant decrease in the amount of the deadly drug fentanyl coming across America’s borders.
According to The Washington Post, the decrease “represents something of a mystery.”
“After years of confiscating rising amounts of fentanyl, the opioid that has fueled the most lethal drug epidemic in American history, U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the Mexican border. Fentanyl seizures are plummeting,” wrote the Post.
The possible reasons, according to the Post, are cartels finding other ways to smuggle the drug into the U.S., cartel internal strife, ingredient shortages, and a possible decline in demand.
Missing from the Post’s story:
President Donald Trump vowed stop fentanyl traffickers through increased border security and by cracking down on illegal immigration. Since taking office, Trump has deployed U.S. troops to the southern border, targeted cartels and transnational criminal groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” and hit cartel leaders with sanctions.
The Post’s piece was widely mocked:
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany commented on X: “The Washington Post is reporting a ‘mysterious drop’ in fentanyl seizures at the southern border. Mystery solved! The Trump effect is working.”
Charlie Kirk, posted: “Four months into the Trump administration, The Washington Post is marveling at the ‘mysterious’ drop in fentanyl seizures on the Mexican border … Is the Post simply lying, or are their reporters as dumb as the people they’re writing propaganda for?”
The Department of Homeland Security’s official X account stated: “It’s no mystery. On day one, [President] Trump closed our borders to drug traffickers.”
DHS said that “from March 2024 to March 2025 fentanyl traffic at the southern border fell by 54%.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt simply called the Post “pathetic,” and White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said: “They can’t stand that President Trump’s strong border policies have led to a DECREASE in fentanyl coming into the U.S.”
On 2024, fentanyl pored across the Biden-Harris regime’s open border and was linked to the deaths of 48,422 persons in the United States, according to the CDC.
Washington Post mocked after reporting on ‘mysterious’ drop in fentanyl trafficking added by Editor Two on June 3, 2025
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