You cannot be this dense, but it’s the liberal media—expect them to do an elite job of being incompetent and missing the forest for the trees. It’s a headline that deserved mockery. It’s a complicated issue, but this aspect is easy to understand without getting into the nitty-gritty of border security. We have a liberal newspaper that is unable to accept reality. Stories like this remind us that we have a laughably inept news media.
I still can’t believe The Washington Post greenlit this: “The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border.” Excuse me, what’s “mysterious” (via WaPo):
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.
The phenomenon has received little notice in Washington, where the Trump administration has made fentanyl-trafficking cartels a national-security priority. “Narcotics of all kinds are pouring across our borders,” said a White House statement in March, announcing stiff tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
New data suggest a more complex story. The U.S. government’s average monthly seizures of fentanyl at the Mexican border have dropped by more than half — from 1,700 pounds in 2024, to 746 pounds this year, according to Customs and Border Protection data. The White House says the drop is “thanks to President Trump’s policies empowering law enforcement officials to dismantle drug trafficking networks.” Yet the decline started before Trump took office in January. (While officials only manage to detect part of the fentanyl crossing the border, the figure serves as a proxy for supply).
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One explanation for a decline in fentanyl at the U.S. border is the war within the Sinaloa cartel, the main producer of the opioid, officials say.
Okay, I can’t take this anymore. What happened in 2024, WaPo? Who won that election, and what has changed at the southern border? This isn’t hard. It’s not the cartels having leadership beefs or producing less product. Well, maybe they are because we have a secure border now, thanks to President Trump. This piece is a torturous exercise in giving credit to Trump. It’s a textbook case of being politically obtuse for the sake of it. That’s a lot of words to say, ‘Trump won the 2024 election, he secured the border, and now fentanyl can’t flow into the country as easily under Joe Biden.’
The Washington ComPost clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) June 1, 2025
They can’t stand that President Trump’s strong border policies have led to a DECREASE in fentanyl coming into the U.S. pic.twitter.com/iJU4D5LUjq
I thought this HAD to be a fake
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) June 1, 2025
But nope. It’s 100% real pic.twitter.com/qXjZlTBYcA
Gosh I guess we’ll never know what happened! pic.twitter.com/KuJ38gt0jS
— James Morrow (@pwafork) June 1, 2025
"mysterious"
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 1, 2025
"complex" pic.twitter.com/79ftzhQzF2
It’s no mystery. On day one, @POTUS Trump closed our borders to drug traffickers. From March 2024 to March 2025 fentanyl traffic at the southern border fell by 54%.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 2, 2025
The world has heard the message loud and clear. pic.twitter.com/7RJVY8ISwS
.@washingtonpost is pathetic https://t.co/QtURLq1gYm
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 2, 2025
