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... office, several election offices in five states were sent letters filled with a white powder that in some cases tested positive for the powerful opioid fentanyl, and bogus 911 calls were made to the homes of top state election officials in Georgia, Maine, Michigan and Missouri in a potentially dangerous ...
... Border Patrol agents, but also hundreds of asylum and other new officers. She also would like to invest in more detection technology specifically to cut fentanyl smuggled in. Now, that bill, of course, Amna, is the one that former President Trump personally killed, even though it was getting some bipartisan ...
Vice President Kamala Harris blamed former President Donald Trump during their presidential debate on Tuesday for intervening to stop a bipartisan immigration and border bill. Harris said she supported the bill, which would have hired 1,500 more border agents and “stem the flow of fentanyl” entering the United States ...
... millions of dollars in cannabis tax revenue toward addiction services, but the money was slow to get out the door at a time when the fentanyl crisis was causing a spike in deadly overdoses and health officials — grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic — were struggling to stand up the new ...
... public benefits using false documents. The border crossing measure is similar to a challenged Texas law that the Justice Department says violates federal authority and would create chaos at the border. Arizona's measure also would make it a felony to sell fentanyl that causes a person's death. Marijuana
... Office on law enforcement and crime. Multiple Michigan sheriffs criticized the Biden and Harris administration over border policy, speaking about the effects drug trade and fentanyl in their communities. Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott listed a series of recent crimes in remarks he said were committed by people in ...
... criticism that he had used the drug. Earlier this year, she said it’s “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, and she criticized the federal classification of cannabis as “patently unfair.” Harris has undergone an “evolution in thought on the issue that is representative ...
... cases led authorities to prosecute the people who supplied them. After rapper Mac Millerdied from an overdose of cocaine, alcohol and counterfeit oxycodone that contained fentanyl, two of the men who provided him the fentanyl were convicted of distributing the drug. One was sentenced to more than 17 years in ...
... 9 percent of their population to fatal overdose. Christopher Booker: They're reporting found that overdoses began spiking in Baltimore about a decade ago, as fentanyl ravaged the city grappling with multiple challenges, including gun violence and later the pandemic. They also found that one demographic has been hit especially ...
... work, and her campaign began running a television ad Friday that said Harris as president would “hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking." Democrats have also blasted Trump for helping tank a bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year that would have increased funding for ...
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