Trump announces new deadly strike on suspected drug boat in Caribbean

"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans", the president claimed, without citing any legal authority for the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/trump-military-strike-boat-caribbean

 

GOP rhetoric about border seizures takes another self-defeating turn

It's as if the political world is overdue for a conversation about the meaning of the word "seized."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rhetoric-border-seizures-takes-another-self-defeating-turn-rcna59832

GOP rep debunks her own talking points about Biden, border policy

…President Joe Biden, the Republican congresswoman would have us believe, is "letting drugs flow" into the United States. As proof, she pointed to an example of the Biden administration stopping drugs from flowing into the United States. Hmm…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-debunks-talking-points-biden-border-policy-rcna37837

Massive, $77 million cocaine bust in Newark underscores an inconvenient truth for Trump - The Washington Post

Experts say the vast majority of drugs come into the United States through legal ports of entry — not illegal border crossings...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/11/huge-cocaine-bust-underscores-inconvenient-truth-trump-majority-drugs-come-through-ports/

DOJ: Trump's immigration crackdown 'diverting' resources from drug cases - USA TODAY

Federal prosecutors in California have taken steps to make it harder to prosecute people smuggling drugs so it can bring more cases against immigrants ....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/22/zero-tolerance-immigration-crackdown-diverting-resources-drug-cases/727532002/