The DEA disagrees with Trump about how heroin is crossing the border

Drug enforcement administration officers.
(Image credit: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Another White House talking point is falling victim to President Trump's own administration.

In a Tuesday Good Morning America interview, Vice President Mike Pence discussed how heroin that "comes through our southern border" could be curbed with a wall. But data from the Drug Enforcement Agency counters his whole argument.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.