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I blame Biden's border crisis for my teen's fentanyl death, and thank Trump for trying to end this scourge

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09.03.2025

Mom Anne Fundner joined 'America's Newsroom' after delivering a speech to the RNC about losing her son to fentanyl poisoning and her advocacy to bring attention to the dangers of fentanyl.

I am a mother of four, but I’ll forever be haunted by the loss of my firstborn son, Weston. Weston was 15 when a fentanyl-laced pill poisoned him in 2022. 

My son wasn’t an addict; he was a vibrant, active teenager with a big heart. He attended church twice a week, played football and hockey, surfed in the Pacific, and had a laugh that could light up a room. 

I tried to be the best mom I could be, cheering him on at his games, cooking family dinners, volunteering at school, but none of that was enough to save him from the poison tearing our country apart.  

Because of the previous administration’s bad border policies, our kids can no longer learn from their mistakes; now they die from them.

Weston’s death wasn’t an overdose; it was a poisoning. Like so many teens, he wanted to fit in and made one mistake of taking a pill from a friend, thinking it was safe. One pill. One mistake. That’s all it took to rob us of his future and steal my son from our family. 

I REPRESENT A BORDER DISTRICT THAT WAS SWAMPED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. WHAT I'M SEEING NOW........

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