Immigration: what they said and what the record shows
What right-wing public figures said about immigration, set against what happened and the record. 33 entries: 1 prediction, 32 claims.
- “Uh, they opened the prisons from as far away as, uh, Africa, different places in Africa, but the Congo in particular, all of their prisoners were brought into…”
- “This is in honor of Springfield, Ohio, a quaint little town of 32,000 people where they took in 35,000 people and put them into Springfield and it didn't work…”
- “Nobody has come into our country in the last 17 months illegally.”
- “I built almost 2,000 miles of wall”
- “zero illegal aliens have entered our country from the southern border in the last 15 months.”
- “We built over 1,400 miles of wall right on your Texas border. One thousand four hundred.”
- “He voted against the Laken Riley Act when he had the chance to save lives.”
- “So for four years, she was the border czar, she never went to the border.”
- “They have 92%, 92% don't work.”
- “I inherited a mess the first time, and I also inherited a broken border, and I fixed it, and it was really good. And I built the wall. I built 700 miles of…”
- “That issue was raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9–0…”
- “In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst President in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of…”
- “I have sent Congress a detailed funding request laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest…”
- “How about in Springfield, Ohio? They had 32,000 -- this is a little beautiful town. No crime, no problem, 32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town, 32,000…”
- “recording of 911 calls even show residents are reporting that the migrants are walking off with the town's geese. They're taking the geese, you know, where the…”
- “In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating--they're eating the pets of the people that live…”
- “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…”
- “They said all the refugees and illegals are welcome and then they deported them the next day, are you kidding me?”
- “Yet under Biden, over 5 million people trespassed illegally across our border last year alone. Think of it, 5 million people.”
- “We deported record numbers of criminal aliens.”
- “Catch and release is a disaster. A murderer would come in, a rapist would come in, a very bad person would come in -- we would take their name, we have to…”
- “100,000 people a year die from what comes across our southern border, and we can get the Democrats to help us in sealing it even tighter.”
- “The cages for kids were built by the Obama Administration in 2014. He had the policy of child separation. I ended it even as I realized that more families…”
- “So, Mexico now, for the first time, has been taking people back to Honduras and Guatemala, and El Salvador, and other countries, and for the first time, not…”
- “And a big majority of the big drugs—the big drug loads—don't go through ports of entry. They can't go through ports of entry.”
- “And they have done a fantastic job. Never so many apprehensions ever in our history.”
- “We know that roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally, and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our…”
- “We've started the wall. Everybody wants the wall. We've spent $3.2 billion on the wall. We've got to get the rest of the funding.”
- “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”
- “They're not saying, oh, let's take our best people, and let's put them into the lottery so that we can send them over to the United States. No. They put their…”
- “And even the President of Mexico called me; they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through our…”
- “I bet there was very little coverage, I bet it's brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after…”
- “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”