“Over 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October. This is Biden’s Border Crisis.”
What FactCheck.org found
There were 899 pounds of fentanyl seized at the U.S. border with Mexico in October 2021, but the steep rise in the monthly amount of the drug being seized began in mid-2020 under then-President Donald Trump.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Elise Stefanik (U.S. Representative) made this claim around 29 November 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 December 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Elise Stefanik has 12 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.