What did Donald Trump claim about immigration on 18 Jul 2024?
Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee ·
If you look at the arrow on the bottom, that's the lowest level, the one on the bottom, heavy red arrow, that's the lowest level of illegal immigrants ever to come into our country in recorded history. Right there. Right there. And that was my last week in office.
Crossings were rising, not at a low, at the end of his term. Border arrests averaged about 3,000 a day in January 2021, and attempted crossings had been increasing since the previous April.
CBP said Southwest border arrests averaged about 3,000 a day in January 2021, Trump's last month in office, and that attempted crossings had been increasing since the previous April (CBP, Feb. 10, 2021).
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- Speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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