Posted on 09/29/2025 1:07:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million federal court records found.
So far this year, about 10% fewer people have been prosecuted for drug violations compared to the same period of 2024, court records show, a drop of about 1,200 cases and the slowest rate since at least the late 1990s. The pullback was more dramatic for the types of conspiracy and money-laundering cases often used to pursue higher-level traffickers. The number of people charged with money-laundering dropped by 24%, according to Reuters' analysis.
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Shortly after taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump launched the broadest overhaul of U.S. law enforcement since the attacks of September 11, 2001. He ordered thousands of federal agents to focus on fending off what he described as an “invasion” of illegal immigration.
The shift has produced a coast-to-coast slowdown in the types of investigations and prosecutions that the government had long viewed as central to taking on criminal networks, including the drug cartels whose products killed more than 80,000 people last year, as agents focused instead on quick-hit immigration raids, interviews and court documents show.
“We’re seeing a reduced amount of time on long-term investigations so agents can go out in their raid gear and be seen supporting immigration raids,” said a...
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Killing two birds with one stone.
If you secure the borders so they can’t get in, maybe you don’t need to prosecute as many. The same thing applies when you blow them up in the Caribbean.
We also have a lot less drugs entering into the USA.
Funny how Reuters can’t see the connection... the left is that stupid.
Yup...and at the same time the lefties at the AP don’t want prosecutions for drug dealers...
“If you secure the borders so they can’t get in, maybe you don’t need to prosecute as many. “
Exactly. Reuters has a meeting each day where they ask each other, “What irrelevant statistic can we take out of context to make Trump look bad today?” 1) 2025 is far from over yet 2) a 10 percent drop doesn’t sound like it could be “the lowest in decades” 3) most drug crimes are at the state and local level 4) how can you spin lower crime as a bad thing?? Sheesh.
What a concept!
Arrests are down because President Trump's enforcemet has reduced drug activity, to wit:
I’m so old I can remember when Reuters demanded that drug prosecutions were racist
Rooters Sewer Service sees the connection perfectly clearly, they just Lie and spread Prog Leftist Democrat Disinformation.
the left is that stupid.
Yes, Leftists are so stupid they will believe Rooters Disinformation.
Wouldn’t there be fewer drug prosecutions if known drug cartel members and “workers” are being deported?
I stand corrected 🤣🤣🤣
Weird! This is like saying I am collecting less water in buckets. Should have never put a new roof on the house. Or in this case enforced the border instead of letting drugs get into the country.
Fentanyl deaths are down a bit but cocaine and methamphetamine deaths are up. Drugs still a big problem in the US despite a more secure border. Much of the Fentanyl and cocaine is not coming by land anyway, it comes by air or sea and illegals have nothing to do with those transportation routes.
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