Fact of the Day: Biden’s Deadly Fentanyl FAIL

Just days before making his first trip to the US-Mexican Border as (p)Resident of the United States, Joe Biden took an opportunity to once again brag about his administration’s accomplishments:

“For example, since August of last year, Customs and Border Patrol have seized more than 20,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl. That’s enough to kill — kill as many as 1,000 people in this country. Twenty thousand pounds of fentanyl. It’s a killer. It’s a flat killer.”
- Joe Biden, speaking from the White House, January 5, 2023

Only 1,000 people?
A statement like that is just begging to be “Fact Checked“

20,000 pounds is equal to 9,071,847,400 milligrams of fentanyl
2 milligrams of fentanyl is considered a fatal dose according to the DEA
9,071,847,400 milligrams can potentially kill as many as 4,035,923,700 people
The World’s population is about 8,009,592,400 people

20,000 pounds of fentanyl is enough to potentially kill
nearly everyone in the world between 14 and 40 years old.

Who’s responsible for the increase in fentanyl
smuggled across the US-Mexican border?
Joe Biden

Who’s responsible for allowing more aliens to cross over
from Mexico into the United States illegally?
Joe Biden

Over 5 million illegal aliens have entered the United States under Joe Biden.

And who’s encouraging more people
to enter the United States, legally or illegally?
Joe Biden

2019 – While running for president of the United States

“We didn’t lock people up in cages. We didn’t separate families. We didn’t do all of those things, number one [False: Biden did both of those things as Vice President under Barack Hussein Obama]…What I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed. I would, in fact, make sure that there is, we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum, they deserve to be heard. That’s who we are. We’re a nation who says, if you want to flee, and you’re freeing oppression, you should come.”
- Joe Biden, from the first Democrat Presidential Debate, September 2019

2023 – During a visit to the US-Mexico Border in El Paso Texas.

“…right now, the cartels make a lot of money, which they use for drug trafficking as well. People go through — make it through jungles and a long journey to the — to the border. And many are victimized, not only in terms of what they have to pay but victimized physically and other ways. And so, we are trying to make it easier for people to get here. Opening up the capacity to get here but not have them go through that God-awful process.
- Joe Biden, during visit to El Paso, TX, January 10, 2023