“Fentanyl is "here because our southern border is open.”
Tucker Carlson
former Fox News pundit. Claim dated 25 Apr 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisBorder is not open
What PolitiFact found
A combination of physical barriers such as fences, surveillance technology such as drones and about 20,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents help limit who and what comes into the United States.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (former Fox News pundit) made this claim around 25 April 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 April 2023. Its rating was “Border is not open”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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