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Latest Fact-Checks In Border Security

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Mary Miller
Mary Miller
stated on October 23, 2021 in a tweet:
The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.”
Pants on Fire!
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 31, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:
“Carnage" is being caused "by people who are coming across the border."
False
By Brandon Mulder • July 2, 2021
George P. Bush
George P. Bush
stated on June 9, 2021 in an interview:
“We see an uncompleted wall that was duly appropriated dollars during the Trump days to build over 700 miles. Only 150 miles were constructed.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • June 21, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 7, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on March 24, 2021 in Twitter:
“We have encountered the largest surge of migrants (at the southern border) in the last 20 years.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • April 12, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 30, 2021 in a tweet:
“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 29, 2021
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 in an interview:
"We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president.”
Half-True
By Brandon Mulder • March 29, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in a press conference:
Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in press conference:
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Passports aren’t required to enter the United States from Mexico and Canada.
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 25, 2021
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on March 15, 2021 in a tweet:
"Illegal border crossings are up 173% from 1 year ago and 28% since January when President Biden stopped the wall & deportations and started catch & release."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • March 25, 2021
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 21, 2021 in 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.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Texas has launched ‘Operation Lone Star’ to finish the border wall themselves.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 23, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 3, 2021 in a tweet:
“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • March 11, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 12, 2021 in Twitter:
“Biden’s plan will immediately let in 25,000 asylum-seekers who’d been waiting in Mexico as their cases were judged.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • March 1, 2021
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on October 27, 2020 in a Tiktok post:
James Biden “built the cages” and “(the Bidens) made millions from it.”
Pants on Fire!
By Noah Y. Kim • November 1, 2020
Lucy McBath
Lucy McBath
stated on September 9, 2020 in an ad:
Says Karen Handel voted with Donald Trump, "gutting health care for millions, supporting horrific child separation policies" and for "abortion bans."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 in 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.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020
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