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Cartels Are Going ‘Broke’ as US Fentanyl Supply Drops by Almost 60 Percent: Homan

Officials report declining fentanyl availability and purity, attributing trends to stronger border measures and disruptions to chemical supply chains.
Cartels Are Going ‘Broke’ as US Fentanyl Supply Drops by Almost 60 Percent: Homan
Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory in northern Virginia on April 29, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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GRAPEVINE, Texas—The Trump administration’s border crackdown is slowing the flow of deadly drugs into the country to the point that cartel profits have plummeted.
​Border czar Tom Homan said during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s operation to go after the Mexican cartels has been successful, and that they are now focusing their drug operations on Europe and Asia.
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.