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All Fact-checks for Border Security

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.”

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stated on May 14, 2020 in 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.”

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

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

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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

stated on September 29, 2019 in 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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stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum

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

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stated on July 12, 2019 in a legislative hearing

Since 2014, there has been a 25% reduction in crime in communities at the Texas-Mexico border.

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stated on July 11, 2019 in 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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stated on June 27, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate

Says "I disagreed" with President Obama’s Secure Communities deportation program

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stated on May 26, 2019 in a TV interview

"Just the last three weeks, on average about 23,000 women, children, men are coming over across the border illegally as family units or as unaccompanied children."

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stated on May 12, 2019 in a Facebook post

"Not one Democrat showed up to listen to border officials about the dangerous situation at our border. Not one!!! NOT ONE!"

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stated on April 16, 2019 in a press conference

"Since 2011, we have documentation of 1,671 dead bodies we have recovered in Texas, many in Brooks County."

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stated on March 14, 2019 in a vote

Position on Trump’s national emergency declaration for border wall funding

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stated on February 25, 2019 in a news conference

"Most people in my home state of Texas disagree with the president building a wall across our border."

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