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Facebook posts stated on September 16, 2019 in a Facebook post:

The United States paid for a 274-mile wall between Jordan and Syria, "approved by the Dems in the house and senate," in order "to keep ISIS out."

By Tom Kertscher• November 1, 2019

John Cornyn stated on November 22, 2016 in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.

By Fauzeya Rahman• January 31, 2017

Facebook posts stated on March 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says the U.S. is developing an “antivirus” that includes a chip to track your movement.

By Samantha Putterman• April 3, 2020

Rand Paul stated on December 06, 2015 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.

By Louis Jacobson• December 8, 2015

Edward Snowden stated on April 05, 2015 in an interview on "Last Week Tonight":

"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."

By Katie Sanders• April 9, 2015

Bill Kristol stated on December 22, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Says President Barack Obama "came into office very concerned about" wiretappings but "then he became president of the United States, he got all the briefings … (and) he decided … the balance is probably pretty appropriately struck."

By Katie Sanders• December 22, 2013

Charlie Kirk stated on April 03, 2020 in a tweet:

“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”

By Bill McCarthy• April 7, 2020

Stephen Ucci stated on March 30, 2011 in a news release:

"A [bank] surveillance camera capturing a criminal’s face and other identifiable traits would certainly discourage robbery attempts and serve as a deterrent to robbers."

By Richard Salit• May 6, 2011

Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2017 in a rally:

"So now they take drugs, literally, and they throw it, a hundred pounds of drugs. They throw it over the wall, they have catapults, but they throw it over the wall, and it lands and it hits somebody on the head."

By Miriam Valverde• September 27, 2017

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

Donald Trump stated on October 24, 2018 in a campaign rally in Wisconsin:

"Democrats oppose any effort to secure our border."

By Miriam Valverde• October 30, 2018

Adam Laxalt stated on August 08, 2022 in a statement:

The public health order Title 42 is "the last tool Border Patrol has to stop the overwhelming flood of illegal immigrants pouring into our country.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• August 31, 2022

Rick Perry stated on April 05, 2013 in an interview on CNN.:

Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.

By W. Gardner Selby• April 25, 2013

Ben Carson stated on August 23, 2015 in an interview on "State of the Union":

Says "56 percent of (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control."

By Joshua Gillin• August 23, 2015

Lisa Tomasso stated on April 05, 2012 in a news release.:

"Rhode Island’s exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years."

By Alex Kuffner• April 17, 2012

Mark Udall stated on June 09, 2013 in a Senate speech rebroadcast on ABC's "This Week":

Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• June 13, 2013

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

Doctors Without Borders stated on October 12, 2016 in a press release:

A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."

By Jon Greenberg• October 24, 2016

Jon Stewart stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":

Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."

By Jon Greenberg• November 5, 2013

Bloggers stated on November 19, 2021 in an article:

“COVID death rates 4 to 1, vaccinated to unvaxxed”

By Monique Curet• November 30, 2021

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