EXCLUSIVE: New GOP Ad Hits Biden Border Crisis For Facilitating Fentanyl Crisis

Republican House candidate Nick Begich of Alaska released an ad Tuesday featuring a local mom criticizing the Biden administration’s border policies that she said led to her son’s fentanyl overdose.

Begich’s ad, obtained exclusively by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation, features Alaska mom Athena Fulton recountingher son, Braeden’s, death, who passed away from a fentanyl overdose at the age of 20. Fulton said that drug addiction and fentanyl, in particular, is “ravaging” communities in Alaska, noting that the crisis came to a head when President Joe Biden was elected and “opened up the border.”

“I am willing to talk about it if it means saving a life,” Fulton said. “Drug addiction, drug use, fentanyl in particular, is ravaging our county. And it wasn’t until the Biden administration came along and pretty much on day one they opened up the border. They’re bringing all kinds of things, it’s not just fentanyl. Lawmakers need to do what they say they’re going to.”

Since Biden took office, there have been over eight million migrant encounters on the southern border, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In that same time frame, over 60,000 pounds of fentanyl have been seized by the CBP.

It takes just two milligrams of fentanyl to kill an adult.