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Tom Nelson
stated on April 26, 2022 Twitter

“Title 42 has fueled the border crisis. In 2019, 7 percent of illegal border crossings were repeated crossings. Today the rate is 27 percent.”

By Laura Schulte • May 17, 2022

Rob Wittman
stated on April 8, 2022 a radio interview.

“They’re going to be giving these people who come across the border, giving them smartphones.”

By Andy Nguyen, Warren Fiske • April 19, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on April 11, 2022 a Facebook post

"Joe Biden is giving smartphones away to illegal border crossers.”

By Andy Nguyen • April 14, 2022

X posts
stated on August 30, 2021 on social media

“Near Morgantown, WV, a Moderna shipment truck crashed, hazmat dispatched, airspace shut down and now apparently Emergency Response is claiming the Department of Defense took it over.”

By Duncan Slade • September 2, 2021

Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 a press conference

“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021

Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 21, 2021 in an ABC News interview

The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021

Ashley Moody
stated on March 9, 2021 a Fox & Friends interview

Says the Biden administration is canceling immigration detainers and “requiring our law enforcement leaders to release” serious criminal offenders.

By Miriam Valverde • March 12, 2021

Mark Kelly
stated on October 6, 2020 a debate

Says Martha McSally “voted to take away money from Fort Huachuca to pay for the border wall.”

By Miriam Valverde • October 14, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 a speech

“On the Southern border, as you know, the wall is going up, it's going up very rapidly. We're at 182 miles.”

By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 an interview with Fox Business

Speaking about border apprehensions, said “We have some of the best numbers we've ever had. Southern border, the best numbers we've ever had.”

By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2020 a Democratic presidential primary debate

Says a 2007 immigration bill “was opposed by (the League of United Latin American Citizens), the largest Latino organization in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center called its guest-worker programs akin to slavery. … And you know who voted with me on that one, Joe? Barack Obama.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 17, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on February 14, 2020 an interview with Jorge Ramos

“You had the last two administrations deport twice as many people as we deported — twice as many.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 13, 2020

Breitbart
stated on February 12, 2020 a Facebook post

“Amy Klobuchar vows to resettle 500 percent more refugees, none in her neighborhood.”

By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2020

Ryan Fournier
stated on October 20, 2019 a tweet

"Starting January 1, 2020, California will tax legal citizens if they don’t have health insurance. Why? The state needs to come up with $98,000,000 to pay for free health insurance for illegal aliens."

By Miriam Valverde • October 30, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 a tweet

"The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them."

By Miriam Valverde • September 18, 2019

Ken Cuccinelli
stated on July 7, 2019 a Fox News Sunday interview

"Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."

By Miriam Valverde • July 11, 2019

Michael Burgess
stated on June 24, 2019 an MSNBC interview

Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of."

By Miriam Valverde • July 10, 2019

America First
stated on March 1, 2019 a tweet

Says Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "have both said they would tear down the wall if elected president."

By Miriam Valverde • March 7, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 20, 2019 a tweet

"We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!"

By Miriam Valverde • February 25, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 19, 2019 a speech

"One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north."

By Miriam Valverde • January 25, 2019

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