Lie January 17, 2019 · Speech · Immigration

“A wall has to be built. We need security in our southern border. Drugs flow in; tremendous percentages of the drugs coming into our country come from the southern border. We're not going to allow it to happen.”

Said
January 17, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
102 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 8023)

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