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Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on June 20, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:

"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."

By Amy Sherman• July 1, 2013

Barack Obama stated on May 10, 2011 in a speech in El Paso:

"The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004."

By Robert Farley• May 10, 2011

Greg Abbott stated on May 12, 2016 in addressing the Republican Party of Texas state convention:

"ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obama’s policies."

By Dylan Baddour• June 17, 2016

Mike Pence stated on May 02, 2010 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press' :

"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."

By Robert Farley• May 5, 2010

Joe Biden stated on February 14, 2020 in 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

Lou Dobbs stated on July 01, 2014 in a segment on 'Lou Dobbs Tonight':

The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration."

By Katie Sanders• July 15, 2014

Janet Napolitano stated on May 07, 2011 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:

"We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country’s history."

By Willoughby Mariano• June 3, 2011

National Border Patrol Council stated on July 28, 2016 in a statement:

"Interior deportations under Obama were down 40 percent and at a nine-year low."

By Miriam Valverde• August 5, 2016

Steve King stated on July 10, 2014 in an interview on Fox news:

Says "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border."

By Lauren Carroll• July 14, 2014

Lamar Smith stated on September 21, 2013 in a flier mailed to constituents:

"In 2010, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office found that only 6.5 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border was under full control of the Border Patrol."

By Sue Owen• October 1, 2013

Howard Schultz stated on April 04, 2019 in a Fox News town hall:

Says presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama each tried to get immigration bills passed, but "it did not work because the other party was unwilling to provide the president and his party a victory."

By Louis Jacobson• April 15, 2019

Barack Obama stated on May 10, 2011 in a speech in El Paso:

"The (border) fence is now basically complete."

By Robert Farley• May 16, 2011

Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on July 20, 2013 in an interview:

Says President Obama has cracked down "on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president."

By Amy Sherman• July 3, 2013

Rick Perry stated on September 22, 2011 in in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando:

"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."

By Becky Bowers• September 23, 2011

Barack Obama stated on May 04, 2013 in his weekly radio address.:

Says "we" have put more boots on the U.S.-Mexico border "than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000."

By W. Gardner Selby• May 13, 2013

Bloggers stated on June 16, 2018 in a blog post:

"Obama administration kept illegal Mexican kids in detention camps as ‘experiment’"

By Bill McCarthy• June 25, 2018

Wayne LaPierre stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed for the Daily Caller:

"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."

By Molly Moorhead• February 20, 2013

Mike Pence stated on June 07, 2023 in a CNN town hall:

“The family separation policy actually began under the Obama administration.”

By Louis Jacobson• June 8, 2023

Donald Trump stated on March 21, 2021 in a statement to the media:

"We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• March 24, 2021

Adam Laxalt stated on November 20, 2022 in an ad:

“Biden and Democrats have dismantled border security.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• November 3, 2022

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