A Michigan woman who lost both of her sons to fentanyl poisonings lambasted the U.S. government in a hearing before House lawmakers, accusing the Biden administration of allowing China and Mexico a free pass at the southern border as the number of Americans killed continues to rise.

Rebecca Kiessling lost her 18-year-old son Kyler and 20-year-old son Caleb in July 2020 after they consumed what they believed were Percocet pills. A 17-year-old girl also died in the same incident, but the individual who sold the fentanyl-filled counterfeit Percocet pills and also consumed them survived.

“Because he survived, [police] had leads to who he got it from, and they actually could try to start tracing it back,” Kiessling said during a hearing on the border crisis before the House Homeland Security Committee in Washington on Tuesday. “Law enforcement made it clear to me that this fentanyl came from Mexico — came from our southern border.”

Kiessling yelled at lawmakers and the White House for doing more to take down the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the United States earlier this month despite it posing less of a threat to Americans.

“If we had Chinese troops lining up along our southern border with weapons aimed at our people, with weapons of mass destruction into our cities, you damn well know you would do something about it,” Kiessling said. “We have a weather balloon from China going across there. Nobody died. And everybody's freaking out about it. And 100,000 die every year and nothing's being done. Not enough is being done. Numbers are going up, not down."

The number of fatal drug overdoses jumped 15% in 2021 to more than 107,000, with opioids, usually fentanyl or other illegal synthetic drugs, accounting for the record numbers.

While law enforcement has tried to push back on the prevalence of drugs in schools, the grieving mother said the dangerous drugs must be stopped at the source — at and before the U.S. borders.

Kiessling's sons died after consuming fake Percocet pills made in Mexico with ingredients from China. The pills, she said, did not contain any Percocet but were stamped and colored to look like the drug. Fentanyl-laced pills are filled with varying amounts of fentanyl because the producers are not held by any quality control standards.

“I didn't know that my boys were taking anything that could kill them. They didn't think that they were either [and] thought that they were safe with pills,” Kiessling said.

While some parents of drug poisoning victims have chosen to memorialize their child with purple-colored chairs, Kiessling said the White House and Congress ought to bring in purple chairs so that they can be reminded of the seriousness and urgency of the situation.

"I don't need a purple chair in my house. Congress needs a purple chair. The White House needs a purple chair to never forget about all those who are being slaughtered," Kiessling said. "This is a war. Act like it. Do something."

President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address in February that he intended to crack down on the fentanyl epidemic. He visited the land ports of entry in El Paso, Texas, in January and called for more technology at the ports so that federal police can seize more fentanyl as smugglers attempt to push it across the border.