Latest Fact-Checks In Border Security

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Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 3, 2024 a CNN interview

“Since May of last year, we have removed or returned more individuals than in any year since 2015.”

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2024

Chris Christie
stated on October 18, 2023 an interview

“In the last 11 months, Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 200,000 apprehensions a month, and you know how many beds we have to detain people at the border? Thirty-eight thousand."

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 20, 2023

Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 a radio interview

Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023

Joaquin Castro
stated on April 28, 2023 a tweet

“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 5, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on January 5, 2023 a speech

Since a new immigration program was implemented, the number of Venezuelans trying to enter the U.S. illegally decreased “from about 1,100 per day to less than 250 per day on average.”

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 6, 2023

Glenn Grothman
stated on July 18, 2022 Twitter

"With three months remaining in the Fiscal Year, (the border patrol) has already encountered more illegal immigrants along the Southwest border" than in any previous fiscal year.

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By Vanessa Swales • August 18, 2022

Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2019 an interview on "Face the Nation"

President Trump "hasn’t built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.

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By Chris Nichols • November 23, 2019

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 29, 2019 a tweet

Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."

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By Julianna Rennie • November 6, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum

"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"

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By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum

At the same time President Trump talks about supporting veterans, "he is deporting service members who have volunteered to serve this country."

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By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2019