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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