“Human trafficking and drugs” at the Mexico border have “doubled, tripled and quadrupled” since Joe Biden became president.”
What PolitiFact found
Experts say it takes time after someone enters the U.S. for them to be subjected to sex or labor trafficking, and there aren’t statistics yet for Biden’s presidency. The number of drug seizure events is up 11%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former president) made this claim around 20 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 April 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/videos/vb.295644160460352/453225989241426/?type=2…
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