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Tom Cotton stated on February 26, 2021 in a CPAC speech:

The Biden administration “halted deportations for all illegal aliens — murderers, rapists, terrorists, MS-13 gang members are not being deported."

By Miriam Valverde• February 26, 2021

Donald Trump stated on March 09, 2024 in a speech:

“Biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the United States are granted immunity from deportation.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 15, 2024

X posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a tweet:

Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”

By Tom Kertscher• July 28, 2021

Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech in Arizona:

The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs "were programs that worked" but were "recklessly gutted" by the Obama administration.

By Miriam Valverde• September 6, 2016

Donald Trump stated on November 13, 2016 in a 60 Minutes interview:

Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally.

By Miriam Valverde• November 15, 2016

Casey Cagle stated on October 09, 2017 in a WSB-TV interview:

A Homeland Security study "showed 120 murders took place that could have been prevented had communities been working with ICE and Homeland Security."

By Miriam Valverde• October 12, 2017

Robert Menendez stated on February 13, 2017 in a tweet:

Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens."

By Miriam Valverde• February 17, 2017

Pete Buttigieg stated on August 28, 2019 in a tweet:

Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers."

By Louis Jacobson• August 30, 2019

Chain email stated on June 09, 2010 in a chain e-mail:

Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.

By Louis Jacobson• June 10, 2010

Tricia McLaughlin stated on November 17, 2025 in an interview posted to X:

“There’s about 1,400 criminal illegal aliens that, right now, are in North Carolina and Charlotte’s jails that they refuse to turn over to ICE law enforcement.”

By Paul Specht• November 24, 2025

Donald Trump stated on May 15, 2018 in a speech:

Says of MS-13 gang members, "We are getting them out of our country by the thousands."

By Miriam Valverde• May 15, 2018

Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech on immigration in Phoenix:

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

By Louis Jacobson• September 2, 2016

Bill McCollum stated on August 05, 2010 in televised candidates' debate:

"Police officers in this state have that right," to check the immigration status of people they arrest.

By Lukas Pleva• August 9, 2010

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

The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.

By Robert Farley• May 11, 2011

Ted Cruz stated on August 21, 2015 in answering a reporter in Iowa:

"In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally."

By W. Gardner Selby• August 28, 2015

Donald Trump stated on October 10, 2018 in a rally in Erie, Pa.:

Says "Bob Casey voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities that released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals and vicious gang members to prey on Pennsylvania streets, to prey all over this country."

By Jon Greenberg• October 31, 2018

Ashley Moody stated on March 03, 2026 in a Senate hearing:

The Biden administration "reversed" a policy of deporting people in the country illegally who have committed felonies.

By Samantha Putterman• March 5, 2026

Michael McCaul stated on June 30, 2024 in an interview:

“(Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro) Mayorkas said, ‘Hey you don’t have to detain aggravated felons,’ those are rapists, child predators, you know, murderers.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 11, 2024

Donald Trump stated on October 08, 2017 in a document:

"Loopholes in current law prevent ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ (UACs) that arrive in the country illegally from being removed."

By Miriam Valverde• October 11, 2017

Donald Trump stated on January 27, 2019 in a tweet:

"We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country."

By Miriam Valverde• January 28, 2019

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