We have written in recent months about what was allowed to happen under former Pres. Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris over four years to the United States, with their crew purposely letting in fentanyl, and putting American families in danger, as the facts filter out over their abhorrent failures.
Now, federal and state lawmakers learning about those failures to secure the U.S. and its citizens' safety are not going to let it lie, with righteous anger spurring action over it. I'll get to that in a minute.
As RedState's Bob Hoge shared Monday on a newly-published investigative report by the AP, fentanyl was allowed to flow unchecked into the American homeland across Biden's porous border in NM, similarly to the guns in the Fast and Furious op under Obama:
NEW: The DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico in bid to build prosecutions
— Jim Mustian (@JimMustian) June 22, 2026
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Agent David Howell tells @AP
“We 100% got people killed”
w/ @APjoshgoodman https://t.co/1tRshl8Xoa
Some Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents didn’t get the memo, however, according to a new Associated Press report that alleges the agency allowed hundreds of thousands of deadly fentanyl pills to flood New Mexico between 2023 and 2025...
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In an interview [linked above], Jim Mustian, one of the two reporters who broke the story, detailed how they tracked down the whistleblower using some smart investigative tactics. They noticed that all but one letter of the whistleblower's name was redacted in a report. It was the letter “L,” so they sent messages via LinkedIn to every DEA agent they could find whose name ended in that letter. They struck gold, and an agent soon connected to the whistleblower, named David Howell.
We also wrote about the ghastly OD scene that greeted law enforcement/first responders in New Mexico in May of this year, leaving many of them sickened and hospitalized:
Three people are dead, and more than a dozen first responders were hospitalized after a suspected overdose at a rural New Mexico home turned into a full-blown hazmat emergency Wednesday morning.
Three Dead, 25 Exposed After New Mexico Overdose Scene Sickens First Responders
As I said, politicians on several levels of government are investigating who broke NM state's laws during those two years. And at least one state executive says it will lead wherever it leads, whether it was politicians in New Mexico's capitol, D.C., or federal agents who were ultimately responsible.
A letter from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) issued on Wednesday calls out federal and state lawmakers for their actions/inactions - and for criminal charges to be brought:
BREAKING: New Mexico's governor calls for criminal probe after AP report that DEA let staggering number of fentanyl pills hit street. https://t.co/MzvtyCdUSj
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 25, 2026
It read in part:
I am appalled by reporting this week by the Associated Press and Albuquerque Journal that revealed federal authorities made a deliberate decision to let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills flood into New Mexico communities, despite knowing that fentanyl is so lethal the White House has designated it a weapon of mass destruction.
Let me say that again: the Drug Enforcement Administration watched as 74,000 fentanyl pills were delivered to a mobile home park in Albuquerque, and they did nothing. And that’s just one transaction. Shockingly, the federal government stood by while monitoring shipments, tallying exact pill counts, and watching as these deadly drugs hit the streets.
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If the justification for letting these pills flood our communities was that it would somehow make New Mexico safer down the road through bigger eventual busts, the results say otherwise. New Mexico now leads the nation in the increase in overdose deaths for the second straight year, despite deaths dropping nationwide.
Today, I wrote to Attorney General Raúl Torrez and asked him to investigate whether any federal agents broke state law when they allowed lethal drugs to remain on our streets, and to prosecute anyone responsible — regardless of whether they are a federal agent or not.
.@GovMLG Thousands of fentanyl pills should never have reached New Mexico's streets but this crisis didn't happen because of one bad decision.
— New Mexico House Republicans (@NMHouseGOP) June 25, 2026
It happened because of years of bad decisions.
Soft on crime policies. Sanctuary policies. An open border under the Biden… https://t.co/jAXVtGRvOK
.@GovMLG Thousands of fentanyl pills should never have reached New Mexico's streets but this crisis didn't happen because of one bad decision.
It happened because of years of bad decisions.
Soft on crime policies. Sanctuary policies. An open border under the Biden administration. And in Santa Fe, Democrats repeatedly blocking tougher penalties for fentanyl traffickers, stronger sentences for repeat offenders, and reforms to hold violent criminals accountable.
That created the perfect storm.
The politicians who spent years making New Mexico a safer place for criminals instead of law abiding families should answer for their failures.
#NewMexico #nmpol #fentanylcrisis
While the problem persists, thankfully, there are signs of hope already. My colleague Ben Smith wrote earlier in June on the Trump administration's soaring numbers on illegal alien gang member arrests.
That followed months of roaring success by Trump 47's Customs and Border Patrol/DHS in cleaning up the mess left by Biden's DEA folks on the fentanyl smuggling, as I wrote recently.
IT WAS UNAVOIDABLE? HARDLY. Dems Claimed Mass Illegal Immigrant Releases Were Unavoidable - Trump Just Hit Month 13 at Zero
The American people deserve to have justice served over these lawmakers' catastrophic disdain for the basics of law and order and upholding our Constitution.
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), who says he is also looking into this, asks the most infuriating question of all: what is the ultimate cost in American lives, families, and communities ripped apart forever by the Democrats' failure to close the border?
A scandal of the highest order. How many thousands of American lives were lost because the Biden DEA refused to act as deadly fentanyl poured over Biden’s open border?
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) June 22, 2026
I intend to find out.https://t.co/P7GwbrhgKy
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