Statement·other·said 2023-09-27
“The deaths of 70,000 Americans in the last 12 months because of fentanyl are because of the open border.”
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Verdict
Mixedby FactCheck.org
2023-09-28Reasoning
Overdose-death figure is roughly right, but most smuggled fentanyl is intercepted at legal ports of entry during vehicle inspections — not via people walking between them — so blaming the "open border" is misleading.
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