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Available U.S. and international reporting indicates that Venezuela is a transit country for some cocaine but accounts for only a small share of drugs directly entering the United States, with most U....
Most reporting and official U.S. assessments identify Mexico and Colombia as the primary countries through which the largest volumes of illegal drugs—especially fentanyl and cocaine—reach the United S...
Recent reporting and specialist analyses show Venezuela is primarily implicated as a transit and facilitation hub for cocaine and, to a contested extent, as part of routes for other drugs — while alle...
Available reporting and official U.S. documents through 2025 consistently state that Venezuela plays at most a minor role in the fentanyl trade; U.S. and independent analyses report “no proof” that fe...
Available reporting shows Venezuela is primarily cited as a transit route for cocaine and other drugs, not as a major producer of fentanyl destined for the United States; U.S. and independent analysts...
President Biden implemented a series of policy reversals and changes to Trump-era immigration rules early in his term — notably halting some deportations, ending the "Remain in Mexico" program, and re...
Since 2019 the universe of refineries actually taking Venezuelan heavy and extra‑heavy crudes has narrowed and rerouted: U.S. Gulf Coast facilities built or retrofitted for heavy, sour Venezuelan grad...
Available reporting and government analyses indicate there is no evidence that a meaningful or measurable quantity of illicit fentanyl is being manufactured in or trafficked from Venezuela to the Unit...
Law enforcement and analysts say the U.S. illicit-fentanyl supply chain is a two-country system: Chinese chemical manufacturers and brokers supply most precursor chemicals, while Mexican cartels have ...
California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois together held the largest shares of the U.S. unauthorized (undocumented) population in recent estimates, accounting for roughly half to mo...
REAL ID is a federally compliant version of a state-issued driver’s license or ID that meets security standards set by the 2005 REAL ID Act and — beginning May 7, 2025 — is required to board domestic ...
Across multiple government and think‑tank counts, the number depends on what is being counted: strict “removals” (formal deportation orders) totaled roughly the mid‑hundreds of thousands in Biden’s la...
Venezuela is documented primarily as a transit route for cocaine rather than a large-scale producer of most illegal drugs; U.S. and other reports estimate significant cocaine transshipments through Ve...
U.S. officials have repeatedly asserted that struck Venezuelan boats were carrying narcotics, and the White House and Pentagon say intelligence confirmed drugs aboard some vessels . Independent report...
Claims that "China is smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. via Venezuela" have been publicly asserted by President Trump and repeated in several outlets (e.g., Trump said “They are doing that” regarding C...
Deportations rose sharply in 2024 and remained high into 2025, with ICE reporting roughly 271,000 removals in FY2024 and multiple analysts estimating 2025 removals in the hundreds of thousands—Migrati...
Recent government and reporting data point to Colombia as the principal source of cocaine that reaches the United States: UN and Reuters reporting says Colombia was the source for most drugs crossing ...
Multiple fact‑checks show viral photos and videos claiming President Joe Biden is “touching young girls inappropriately” are manipulated, cropped or taken out of context; Reuters, AP, AFP, PolitiFact ...
The most recent official counts show the U.S. has about and border barriers in place along the U.S.–Mexico border as of the start of 2025, and the Department of Homeland Security awarded to add roughl...
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, reporting compiled in these sources records constructed during his first term, against a U.S.–Mexico border of , meaning a minority portion of the total boundary was...