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Laura Ingraham stated on February 08, 2021 in a TV segment:

“You may not have stayed in a hotel in the past year, but illegals arriving since Biden’s inauguration, they get to stay free of charge.”

By Bill McCarthy• February 15, 2021

Greg Abbott stated on March 03, 2021 in a tweet:

“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”

By Brandon Mulder• March 11, 2021

Joaquin Castro stated on April 28, 2023 in a tweet:

“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 5, 2023

Virginia Foxx stated on July 17, 2023 in a committee meeting:

Immigrants are supposed to “apply for asylum in the country where they are, and then they try to come into the United States.”

By Paul Specht• July 27, 2023

Joe Biden stated on August 06, 2020 in an interview with members of NAHJ and NABJ:

Asked about asylum seekers in camps in Mexico, “This is the first time ever you've had to seek asylum in a third country.”

By Miriam Valverde• August 12, 2020

Ted Budd stated on January 09, 2019 in a tweet:

Says there are "2,000 inadmissible migrants arriving every day"

By Paul Specht• January 17, 2019

Ron Johnson stated on April 03, 2018 in a radio interview:

"We have laws on the books where people can walk right up to our ports of entry, say ‘I have a credible fear of persecution,’ and we bring them in. We don’t send them back."

By D.L. Davis• April 27, 2018

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."

By Paul Specht• March 25, 2021

Wolf Blitzer stated on June 19, 2018 in in an interview:

"Most (immigrants) do show up in court."

By John Kruzel• June 26, 2018

Joe Biden stated on February 16, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“For the first time in American history, if you're seeking asylum ... you can't do it from the United States. … You’ve got to seek asylum from abroad.”

By Miriam Valverde• February 17, 2021

Veronica Escobar stated on March 14, 2021 in a CNN interview:

"We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year."

By Miriam Valverde• March 17, 2021

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.”

By D.L. Davis• March 1, 2021

Dan Patrick stated on October 18, 2021 in a TV interview:

Over a million people apprehended at the border this year, "meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally."

By Nusaiba Mizan• November 15, 2021

Raul Labrador stated on June 27, 2018 in an opinion piece in the Idaho Statesman:

Immigrants "can show up at any embassy or consulate abroad" to make their asylum claims.

By Miriam Valverde• July 10, 2018

Ron Johnson stated on November 01, 2018 in a radio interview:

"Every couple days we have a caravan size group of people apprehended trying to come into the country illegally, or coming to the ports of entry without documentation."

By D.L. Davis• November 16, 2018

Greg Abbott stated on November 18, 2015 in a tweet:

"8 Syrians caught at Texas border in Laredo."

By Dylan Baddour• November 20, 2015

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

Kirstjen Nielsen stated on July 19, 2018 in an interview:

"There are billboards in Central America in the Northern Triangle countries advertising how to grab a kid to get into the United States illegally."

By Miriam Valverde• July 23, 2018

Marco Rubio stated on March 03, 2024 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

Joe Biden's executive orders meant "for the first time in American history we have a president who will not detain the people who enter this country illegally."

By Samantha Putterman• March 8, 2024

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.”

By Brandon Mulder• March 29, 2021

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