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Search results for "texas mexico border"

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Greg Abbott stated on January 14, 2011 in a press release:
There have been "at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border."
By W. Gardner Selby• January 28, 2011
Steve McCraw 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.
By Madlin Mekelburg• July 25, 2019
Rick Santorum stated on September 22, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
Says that in 2001, Rick Perry spoke favorably of binational health insurance between Mexico and Texas.
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• October 4, 2011
Dan Patrick stated on July 21, 2014 in an interview with Laura Ingraham:
More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week "than are born in Texas each week."
By Philip Jankowski• September 12, 2014
Facebook posts stated on September 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Haitian migrants took an implausible route to Texas-Mexico border area.
By Amy Sherman• September 23, 2021
Rick Perry stated on April 15, 2010 in an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek:
"We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response."
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 29, 2010
Rick Perry stated on June 04, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
By Bradley Saacks• July 26, 2015
TikTok posts stated on January 13, 2024 in a TikTok video:
President Joe Biden said he will “send F-15s” to “wage war against Texas.”
By Sara Swann• January 18, 2024
Beto O'Rourke stated on January 03, 2018 in remarks at a stop in Greenville, Texas:
Says "precisely zero terrorists, terrorist groups or terror plots have ever been connected with the U.S.-Mexico border to do harm to people within the United States."
By Johnathan Silver• May 3, 2018
Judicial Watch stated on April 14, 2015 in a web item:
"ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm."
By W. Gardner Selby• April 17, 2015
John Cornyn stated on March 17, 2010 in in a letter to President Barack Obama:
"The spillover violence (from Mexico) in Texas is real and it is escalating."
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 28, 2010
David Dewhurst stated on September 26, 2014 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:
"Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush."
By Dylan Baddour• October 19, 2014
Rick Perry stated on March 02, 2011 in an interview.:
Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon "have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas."
By W. Gardner Selby• March 4, 2011
Rick Perry stated on October 01, 2011 in remarks at a campaign stop October 1, 2011, in New Hampshire:
"I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams."
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby• November 22, 2011
Dan Patrick 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."
By Madlin Mekelburg• April 23, 2019
D.A. King stated on October 11, 2011 in an op-ed:
Says Rick Perry "proposed a binational health insurance program with Mexico."
By Eric Stirgus• November 22, 2011
Greg Abbott stated on August 26, 2010 in an interview:
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• September 1, 2010
Scott Walker stated on April 25, 2015 in an interview:
Says that as president, Barack Obama has not gone to the Texas-Mexico border 
By Tom Kertscher• May 13, 2015
Jeff DeWit stated on February 22, 2016 in an interview with CNN's Carol Costello.:
"Now we have ISIS coming over the (U.S.-Mexico) border."
By Anthony Cave• March 10, 2016
Rick Perry stated on June 17, 2014 in an interview on Fox & Friends:
A record number of immigrants not from Mexico are "being apprehended at the border."
By W. Gardner Selby• June 18, 2014

Articles (2714)

Fact-checking Obama and others on border claims

By • May 10, 2011

Muslim prayer rugs on Texas-Mexico border? No confirmed finds

By W. Gardner Selby• October 27, 2014

Rick Perry wishes he was in ... Washington?

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• March 3, 2011

Passports, please

By • October 5, 2010

What we know about COVID-19 testing for migrants at the southern border

By Miriam Valverde• April 12, 2021

Lesson of 2014: Check the facts behind Mexico border claims

By W. Gardner Selby• December 23, 2014

Are illegal immigrants bringing ‘tremendous’ disease across the border, as Trump says? Unlikely

By Louis Jacobson• July 23, 2015

How Trump plans to build, and pay for, a wall along U.S.-Mexico border

By Miriam Valverde• July 26, 2016

Razor wire and a blocked Border Patrol. What’s going on in Eagle Pass, Texas?

By Jeff Cercone, Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 24, 2024

Federal aid covers most costs of cameras near Texas-Mexico border

By W. Gardner Selby• February 7, 2014

The context behind Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s dueling immigration speeches at the Texas border

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 1, 2024

5 myths about immigration

By Will Cabaniss• July 2, 2015

UPDATED: John Cornyn's rancher tweet among many claims about border conditions

By W. Gardner Selby• March 6, 2013

Texas Department of Public Safety says whoa to California congressman's ISIS claim

By W. Gardner Selby• October 10, 2014

Is the border fence finished?

By • May 17, 2011

Rick Perry tours border with Fox's Van Susteren

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• May 26, 2011

Illegal immigration a hot tamale topic in Texas

By W. Gardner Selby• June 20, 2014

Rick Perry and border security

By W. Gardner Selby• June 3, 2015

McCaul’s explosive claim was readers' favorite

By W. Gardner Selby• April 4, 2011

Finding the facts about immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

By W. Gardner Selby• September 2, 2014