Trump’s lies about immigration

873 lies about immigration, out of 3,237 false or misleading claims on the topic (27% rated lies). Each one links to the fact-check.

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Feb 2, 2026 · InterviewAmong Somalis in Minnesota, “92% of them don’t work.”
Jan 21, 2026 · SpeechProtesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They’re professional troublemakers.”
Apr 29, 2025 · Interview“If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process.
Apr 29, 2025 · InterviewKilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles tattooed. … He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be. Not ‘interpreted.’”
Jan 20, 2025 · RemarksThe United States is the only country with unrestricted birthright citizenship.
Oct 4, 2024 · InterviewThe Biden administration stole $1 billion “from FEMA to use it for illegal migrants. … And FEMA is now busted. They don’t have any money.”
Sep 18, 2024 · SpeechWhen Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter.”
Sep 10, 2024 · Debate“In Springfield (Ohio), 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 there.”
Aug 28, 2024 · Statement or ad“Kamala Harris has promised amnesty for the 10 million illegals she allowed in as border czar, making them eligible for Social Security. Studies warn this will lead to cuts in your Social Security benefits.”
Jul 24, 2024 · Rally“We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border. We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse than it’s ever been.”
Jul 24, 2024 · RallyKamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”
Jun 6, 2024 · RallyJoe Biden’s immigration order limiting asylum is “pro-child trafficking.”
May 29, 2024 · RemarksJoe Biden “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”
Apr 2, 2024 · Speech“Crime is down in Venezuela by 67% because they’re taking their gangs and their criminals and depositing them very nicely into the United States.”
Mar 16, 2024 · Rally“Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There’s too many of them. It’s not sustainable.”
Mar 9, 2024 · Speech“Biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the United States are granted immunity from deportation.”
Jan 3, 2024 · Statement or adNikki Haley “opposed Trump’s border wall” and “Trump’s travel ban.”
Oct 9, 2023 · Social post“The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers.”
Apr 19, 2021 · Interview“Human trafficking and drugs” at the Mexico border have “doubled, tripled and quadrupled” since Joe Biden became president.
Feb 28, 2021 · SpeechSays Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”
Jan 12, 2021 · Speech“Removing any of these [anti-immigration] measures would hamstring our workers, endanger our country, and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year.”
Jan 12, 2021 · Remarks“It's been tremendously successful, far beyond what anyone thought. We're stopping, in large numbers, the drugs coming into the country for many, many years and decades.”
Jan 4, 2021 · Rally“Remember we'll build a wall? We're going to build a wall. And that's right, Mexico is paying for the wall, or if I were here they would be, because we were going to charge them a nice fee right at the entry points.…
Nov 3, 2020 · Interview“Mexico will be paying for the wall and they're paying for the wall, you know.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“We will ban deadly sanctuary cities.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“And we will ban deadly sanctuary cities.”
Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, Mexico is paying for the wall so we get that one clear. It's all done.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“We will ban deadly sanctuary cities.”
Oct 30, 2020 · Rally“They lecture you on morality, while they support sanctuary cities that get innocent citizens robbed, raped, maimed and murdered.”
Oct 28, 2020 · Rally“Mexico will be paying for the wall, by the way.”
Oct 27, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall.”
Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“They want sanctuary cities for violent criminals.”
Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall, by the way, in case you had any question. That's the other thing. So now they know it's built, then they said, 'But Mexico will not be paying for it.' I said, 'No, no, Mexico is paying…
Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall, by the way, for those of you wondering.”
Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“His plan would also make every community into a sanctuary city for violent criminals.”
Oct 25, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, Mexico is paying for the wall, you do know that okay? A fee.”
Oct 24, 2020 · Rally“Now we got it financed. Mexico will be paying for it, because we're going to charge a fee at the base. So it was very simple.”
Oct 24, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall....they [news media] said, 'Well, Mexico is not paying for it.' I said, 'They never fail.' So, Mexico is paying for it, and that's the way it is. They're paying the border tax, that's…
Oct 24, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall. They'd like to have you say no, no. Once it was complete -- Once they knew the wall -- Oh, and we can't talk about the wall anymore. Then they said, 'Ah. Oh, listen. But Mexico's not…
Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall, you do know that okay?”
Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“By the way, Mexico is paying for the wall, just so you understand.”
Oct 22, 2020 · Interview“Kristen, they [Obama administration] did it [family separations]. We changed the policy.”
Oct 22, 2020 · Interview“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 release them into our country. And then you say they come back.…
Oct 21, 2020 · Interview“Mexico's paying for the wall, by the way, just in case you had any question. Mexico is paying for the wall.”
Oct 21, 2020 · Rally“He [Biden] wants to make every community into a sanctuary city for violent criminals.”
Oct 20, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, Mexico, you know they keep saying Mexico is paying for the wall, they understand that. They're paying for the wall. Mexico's paying for it.”
Oct 18, 2020 · Social post“Mexico will pay for the Wall!”
Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, Mexico is paying for the wall.”
Oct 16, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall, you do know that....Mexico is paying for it. They know that, but they don't like to say it.”
Oct 16, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall by the way.”
Oct 15, 2020 · Interview“The wall is almost finished and Mexico is paying for it, by the way.”
Oct 14, 2020 · Rally“As I said, Mexico is paying for the wall.”
Oct 13, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall, by the way. You know that, I've been saying it. They hate to hear that, but they pay. You know, we're putting a charge on when the cars go through and it'll more than pay for the wall.”
Oct 12, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, Mexico is paying -- they hate to say it, Mexico is paying for it [the wall] and Mexico's been great.”
Oct 9, 2020 · Interview“We have a killer who killed eight people on the West Side Highway, ran over eight people. A terrorist, jihadist came in through the southern border. And through chain migration, he brings in his mother, his father…
Sep 30, 2020 · Rally“We will ban deadly sanctuary cities.”
Sep 30, 2020 · Rally“Our opponents will send your jobs to China. I will keep your jobs in America. Our opponents want to erase our nation's core values and I want to defend, preserve our nation's historic values.”
Sep 30, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for [the wall]. You do know that, right? They keep saying it's going to be a border charge at the border for the trucks and cars and it won't even have to be a lot.”
Sep 22, 2020 · Rally“Once they saw that I had it, they said, yeah, but Mexico is not paying for it, OK? But they are paying for it. Mexico's paying for the wall. They are paying for it. They're paying at the border. They're paying for the…
Sep 8, 2020 · Rally“Mexico is paying for the wall, just so you understand. They don't say that, they never say it, but we're going to charge a small fee at the border.”
Sep 4, 2020 · Rally“And you know all about sanctuary cities, 'cause you have a nice, dangerous one in your midst.”
Sep 3, 2020 · Rally“Mexico will be paying for the wall and I say it respectfully to Mexico, but they will be paying for the wall.”
Aug 28, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, you know, Mexico is paying for the wall just in case you didn't know that. They don't know that. They're paying for the wall.”
Aug 24, 2020 · Rally“We stripped federal grant funding from the deadly sanctuary cities, which are a disaster.”
Aug 24, 2020 · Rally“The FBI has opened 300 domestic terror investigations.”
Aug 20, 2020 · Speech“Expand deadly sanctuary cities.”
Aug 18, 2020 · Speech“We stripped federal grant funding from deadly sanctuary cities. They want to have a sanctuary city, not going to be like the old days.”
Aug 18, 2020 · Remarks“They [Mexico] are paying for it [the wall]. They're going to pay at the border, at the gate -- cars going through. We're going to do a toll, or we may do a toll for money being sent back and forth. They will pay for…
Aug 17, 2020 · Rally“They're going to make America a sanctuary for criminal aliens. They're going to keep those sanctuary cities. They love sanctuary cities.”
Jul 18, 2020 · Rally“They support sanctuary cities, which is basically supporting criminals and that's disgraceful and it's not popular anywhere, including in California.”
Jul 18, 2020 · Rally“But we built 250 miles of wall, you remember? That was a campaign promise, 250 miles of wall and we're stopping the flow of drugs and crime and illegal immigration.”
Jul 12, 2020 · Social post“The Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders for anyone, including many criminals, to come in!”
Jul 6, 2020 · Social post“New York City and Chicago play the Sanctuary City card, where criminals are protected. Perhaps they will have to start changing their ways (and thinking!).”
Jun 23, 2020 · Interview“Illegal immigration is a big problem. Open borders, a big problem. Crime comes in tremendous drugs, human trafficking.”
Jun 23, 2020 · Interview“He wants open borders … and he wants, you know, drugs and all the other problems.”
Jun 20, 2020 · Rally“With open borders, trapped young children in failing government schools, built cages. Those cages were built by Obama and Biden.”
Jun 3, 2020 · Interview“Open borders -- that means drugs, that means human traffickers, that means all of these horrible things, that means people pouring into our country.”
May 19, 2020 · Remarks“We're stopping drug traffic [with the wall].”
May 4, 2020 · Social post“Mexico is sadly experiencing very big CoronaVirus problems, and now California, get this, doesn't want people coming over the Southern Border. A Classic! They are sooo lucky that I am their President. Border is very…
Apr 30, 2020 · Remarks“Well, I have the right to do that. But sanctuary cities, especially at a time like this, that's a very dangerous thing. Our law enforcement hates it. They hate it. They want -- we want safe cities. We want a…
Apr 10, 2020 · Press conference“And especially with the over 160 miles of wall -- it's getting very hard to get through the border. [Drug traffickers] used to drive right through the border like they owned it, and in a certain way, they did.”
Mar 30, 2020 · Interview“We're up to 161 miles of wall.”
Mar 23, 2020 · Press conference“You know -- you know we're building a wall. We're up to over 150 miles of wall on our southern border, which is now turning out to be even more important than we originally thought.”
Mar 5, 2020 · Social post“The WALL is well under construction.”
Mar 5, 2020 · Social post“As per recent Federal Court ruling, the Federal Government will be withholding funds from Sanctuary Cities. They should change their status and go non-Sanctuary. Do not protect criminals!”
Mar 5, 2020 · Interview“And once we have that wall, it's going to stop drugs.”
Mar 3, 2020 · Remarks“We've built 129 miles of wall, and the wall area is 100 percent secure.”
Mar 3, 2020 · Speech“We built 128 miles of wall. We've already got 100, and we have some going up in New Mexico just now. But we have 128 miles.”
Mar 2, 2020 · Rally“We're building the wall, we're building the wall, we're building the wall, we're building the wall. Mexico's paying for the wall, by the way.”
Mar 2, 2020 · Rally“The entire Democratic field supports deadly sanctuary cities, which release dangerous criminals to terrorize your communities right here in North Carolina, believe it or not.”
Feb 29, 2020 · Speech“They [Democrats] want to have sanctuary cities where you protect bad people, in many cases. The sanctuary cities.”
Feb 29, 2020 · Speech“But so now they like to say, 'All right, so he's building the wall, but Mexico is not paying for it.' Yes, they are, actually. You know what I mean, right? They are paying for it. They're paying for it.”
Feb 28, 2020 · Rally“You've all seen the wall has gone up like magic. It has gone up like magic.”
Feb 28, 2020 · Rally“We'll have 500 miles [of the Southern border fence] built by very early next year, some time, so, one of the reasons the numbers are so good. We will do everything in our power to keep the infection and those carrying…
Feb 28, 2020 · Rally“'He's building the wall but Mexico's not paying for it.' Yes, they are, actually, they are, they are, they are paying for it. And some of the fake news knows that, but they refuse to report it but that's OK, you'll…
Feb 20, 2020 · Rally“We are building the wall, has gone up 122 miles as of yesterday.”
Feb 20, 2020 · Rally“Left-wing politicians are imposing deadly sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. And policies that compel local law enforcement to release these illegal aliens straight into your beautiful communities.”
Feb 20, 2020 · Rally“Every day, Democrats open border policies are harming and killing innocent lives.”
Feb 19, 2020 · Speech“Yeah, the wall is being built.”
Feb 19, 2020 · Rally“That border is clogged, and we've started the big wall right in Arizona.”
Feb 14, 2020 · Remarks“Right now we have 122 miles of wall that's been built.”
Feb 14, 2020 · Remarks“American citizens are entitled to safe neighborhoods and safe streets that, really, the people in this room have provided where they're given the opportunity. With sanctuary cities, they're really not given that…
Feb 10, 2020 · Interview“We're building the wall.”
Feb 10, 2020 · Rally“The wall is being built.”
Feb 10, 2020 · Rally“The far left's policy of open borders allowed deadly drugs to flow freely into our country, and that's what they want.”
Feb 1, 2020 · Social post“Wall is moving along strong, tall and quickly. Thank you Jim for all of your help!”
Jan 30, 2020 · Rally“Left-wing politicians even support deadly sanctuary cities that release criminal aliens directly onto American communities. We don't want them.”
Jan 30, 2020 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs our nation hundreds of billions of dollars, drains public services, overcrowds our schools and hospitals, and threatens innocent American lives at a number that you wouldn't even believe.”
Jan 30, 2020 · Rally“By the way, we're building the wall. You know the walls over 100 miles, over 100 miles long already and moving fast.”
Jan 28, 2020 · Rally“The wall is a vital barrier for blocking deadly drugs from pouring into these communities.”
Jan 28, 2020 · Rally“The money is won and we are now building that beautiful wall.”
Jan 28, 2020 · Rally“It's a tough situation, but Mexico is in fact, you will soon find out -- paying for the wall, OK? You know they'd hit you with that. No, the wall is ultimately and very nicely being paid for by Mexico.”
Jan 24, 2020 · Remarks“Sanctuary city policies that order police to ignore these federal detainers and release criminal aliens to the public -- that's really a tremendous risk. The public is -- you see the statistics; you see the numbers.”
Jan 19, 2020 · Speech”They want open borders …essentially what they are saying is they want crime. Now they say they don't want crime but that's what you get with open borders.”
Jan 19, 2020 · Speech“The wall is being built at a very rapid pace.”
Jan 14, 2020 · Rally“Mexico’s paying for the wall. You know that. You'll see that. It’s all worked out. Mexico’s paying.”
Jan 14, 2020 · Rally“Left-wing politicians … support deadly sanctuary cities. … These jurisdictions release dangerous, violent, criminal aliens out of their jails and directly onto your streets where they are free to rob, attack and…
Jan 10, 2020 · Interview“And the wall has been built anyway, because I was taking it out of the military and everything else, and now it's easier.”
Jan 9, 2020 · Rally“The wall is being built. We built, we built already a tremendous amount.”
Jan 9, 2020 · Rally“On no issue have Democrat politicians both thoroughly betrayed the American people than the issue of illegal immigration. Far-left radical politicians, support deadly sanctuary cities, demonstrating their contempt…
Jan 9, 2020 · Social post“Entire Wall is under construction or getting ready to start!”
Jan 6, 2020 · Interview“They want open borders. That means all of these people are going to be pouring in. And of course good ones will come in too but you have tremendous numbers of really bad people including murderers and rapists and…
Dec 27, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is funded & being built!”
Dec 21, 2019 · Speech“The open-borders agenda of the radical left causes profound harm to poor, working-class Americans. Their extreme policies overcrowd schools and hospitals. They drain vital public resources, deplete health care…
Dec 21, 2019 · Speech“Sanctuary cities deliberately release dangerous criminal aliens out of their jails and right onto our city streets.”
Dec 18, 2019 · Rally“The Democrats ... they've got horrible policies: open borders, crime is fine, drugs pouring through.”
Dec 18, 2019 · Rally“Far-left politicians support deadly sanctuary cities, which deliberately release dangerous violent criminal aliens out of the jails and directly onto your streets.”
Dec 18, 2019 · Rally“Democrat immigration policies are resulting in brutal assaults and wicked murders against innocent Americans.”
Dec 17, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is being built. We're building a very big wall.”
Dec 17, 2019 · Statement or ad“The building of the Southern Border Wall.”
Dec 10, 2019 · Rally“The wall is going up at a very rapid pace.”
Dec 10, 2019 · Rally“Far-left politicians support deadly sanctuary cities demonstrating this sneering contempt, scorn and disdain for everyday Americans. These jurisdictions deliberately release dangerous, violent criminal aliens out of…
Dec 8, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is going up fast!”
Dec 7, 2019 · Speech“And we're building a wall.”
Dec 6, 2019 · Social post“Without the horror show that is the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, the Stock Markets and Economy would be even better, if that is possible, and the Border would be closed to the evil of Drugs, Gangs and all other…
Nov 26, 2019 · Social post“When the Military rips down an old & badly broken Border Wall in an important location, & replaces it with a brand new 30 ft. high Steel & Concrete Wall, Nancy Pelosi says we are not building a Wall. Wrong, and it is…
Nov 26, 2019 · Interview“We're building a wall along the Mexican border. We need that wall desperately.”
Nov 26, 2019 · Rally“The wall is happening. It's getting built rapidly and that's a real wall.”
Nov 26, 2019 · Rally“The far-left embrace of sanctuary cities demonstrates their scorn and disdain for everyday Americans. Sanctuary cities have adopted a policy now of lawless anarchy aimed at innocent civilians. They deliberately…
Nov 26, 2019 · Rally“As President, I will not allow our immigration system to be used against us. I will not allow political correctness to put our families in danger and our communities at risk. We won't do it.”
Nov 14, 2019 · Rally“We are building the wall faster than anyone thought possible. Thank you. It's being built.”
Nov 12, 2019 · Speech“Democrats in Washington want to erase these gains through an extreme policy of open borders, flooding the labor market, and driving down incomes for the poorest Americans, and driving crime right through the roof. ……
Nov 12, 2019 · Speech“But we're building the wall. It's going up rapidly.”
Nov 8, 2019 · Speech“Every day, Democrat sanctuary cities are releasing dangerous criminal aliens and gang members like MS-13 onto your streets.”
Nov 6, 2019 · Rally“We are building that wall faster than anyone thought it was possible to build.”
Nov 6, 2019 · Speech“The other side wants open borders, which brings tremendous crime.”
Nov 6, 2019 · Rally“The Democrats want open borders … which means crime.”
Nov 6, 2019 · Rally“Our military is now building the wall and it's going up fast.”
Nov 1, 2019 · Rally“They want open borders which means crime. They want sanctuary cities which means crime and drugs and death. After bleeding the middle-class dry, Democrats threw open our borders to the world, flooding our communities…
Nov 1, 2019 · Remarks“They [Democrats] want sanctuary cities, which means crime and lots of other problems.”
Nov 1, 2019 · Remarks“They [Democrats] want open borders, which means crime.”
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“We are building the wall faster, bigger, better than ever even anticipated.”
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“Thousands of removable criminal aliens are set free into U.S. communities every single year because of these policies, terrorizing the public and menacing the peace.”
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“Sanctuary cities order jails and prisons to release criminal illegal aliens -- people that have committed the worst crimes -- directly back onto city streets, instead of safely turning them over to federal immigration…
Oct 23, 2019 · Speech“We're building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works, that you can't get over, you can't get under. And we're building a wall in Texas. And we're not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the…
Oct 17, 2019 · Rally“As an example, we're building a great wall along the Southern border and it's going up rapidly.”
Oct 14, 2019 · Social post“… the WALL is being built!”
Oct 12, 2019 · Speech“It's going up really fast.”
Oct 11, 2019 · Rally“The wall is being built like you've never seen before.”
Oct 11, 2019 · Rally“Democrats even support deadly sanctuary cities which defy federal law enforcement and unleash violent criminal aliens onto your streets.”
Oct 10, 2019 · Rally“We are building the wall faster than anyone ever anticipated, it could be built.”
Oct 10, 2019 · Rally“Democrats also deadly sanctuary cities which release dangerous criminal aliens into the heart of your communities and we're not letting it happen anymore.”
Oct 7, 2019 · Remarks“We have tremendous success at the border. I want to thank Mexico for what they've been doing. You look at the numbers; they're tumbling down. This is one on catch and release. Look at that. See that, fellas? Catch and…
Oct 7, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is moving rapidly. Large sections are being built every day. More contracts are being given out.”
Oct 4, 2019 · Social post“We are building the wall.”
Oct 4, 2019 · Speech“But the wall is being built. It would've been a lot easier.”
Oct 2, 2019 · Remarks“We are right now building a tremendous wall; it’s unbelievable what’s going up.”
Oct 2, 2019 · Social post“Massive sections of The Wall are being built at our Southern Border. It is going up rapidly, and built to the highest standards and specifications of the Border Patrol experts. It is actually an amazing structure!”
Sep 26, 2019 · Remarks“They want open borders, and, frankly, I think they want crime. But they want open borders. They want drugs. They want human trafficking. And it's a disgrace.”
Sep 25, 2019 · Press conference“The wall is being built, by the way.”
Sep 19, 2019 · Social post“GREAT progress on the Border Wall!”
Sep 18, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall. We won the big case and a couple of other cases, as you know. We're building a lot of wall.”
Sep 18, 2019 · Remarks“The wall still, obviously, has a ways to go, but we're building it at a breakneck speed.”
Sep 18, 2019 · Social post“GREAT progress on the Border Wall!”
Sep 16, 2019 · Rally“Well, you know we're building the wall and it's going up.”
Sep 16, 2019 · Rally“They don't want open borders, they don't want criminals pouring into your communities and doing what they do and we won't even talk about that.”
Sep 16, 2019 · Rally“Right here in New Mexico, Democrats are trying to turn you into a total sanctuary state, creating a safe harbor for dangerous criminal aliens and gang members that sanctuary policies released from jail. Now think of…
Sep 16, 2019 · Social post“Big crowd expected in New Mexico tonight, where we will WIN. Your Border Wall is getting stronger each and every day — see you in a few hours!”
Sep 13, 2019 · Social post“Illegal Immigration costs the USA over 300 Billion Dollars a year. There is no reason for this, and things are being set in motion to have this number come WAY DOWN.”
Sep 12, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is going up as we speak.”
Sep 12, 2019 · Speech“That wall is being built and it's being built rapidly.”
Sep 11, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is going up very fast despite total Obstruction by Democrats in Congress, and elsewhere!”
Sep 11, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is being built after victories against the Democrats in various courts!”
Sep 9, 2019 · Remarks“When the wall is built -- and it’s moving rapidly right now. It’s moving very rapidly.”
Sep 9, 2019 · Rally“They [Democrats] want to have drugs pouring into our country. You have to have a wall and you have to stop it .”
Sep 9, 2019 · Video“The media won't tell you this, but we're building the wall, and we're building it on an expedited basis. It's going up fast, and we're putting it where the Border Patrol most wants it.”
Sep 9, 2019 · Rally“Every inch of wall that we put up is vital and we're putting up miles and miles....this is serious wall. This is the real deal. Serious wall.”
Sep 8, 2019 · Social post“WE ARE BUILDING THE WALL...”
Sep 4, 2019 · Remarks“And the wall is being built. It’s going up rapidly. It’s -- I guess, most of you have been able to see it. ”
Aug 28, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is going up very fast despite total Obstruction by Democrats in Congress, and elsewhere!”
Aug 21, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is being built. We're building tremendous numbers of miles of wall right now in different locations.”
Aug 21, 2019 · Remarks“So, President Obama had [family] separation. I'm the one that brought them together. This new rule will do even more to bring them together. But it was President Obama that had the separation.”
Aug 19, 2019 · Social post“We are building a big, beautiful, NEW Wall!
Aug 15, 2019 · Interview“We're building the wall. It's going up now.”
Aug 15, 2019 · Rally“Wall is being built. You know we have the fake news, you know about that, were they -- a wall that's lying on the ground in a very important section, so we pick up the wall, bits and pieces. I mean, literally, it's…
Aug 15, 2019 · Rally“Democrats want open borders, they don't mind crime, we do mind crime and that's the way it is.”
Aug 13, 2019 · Speech“The wall is being built.”
Aug 7, 2019 · Remarks“And we're stopping; we're building a wall right now. We won the lawsuit in the Supreme Court two weeks ago. The wall is well under construction. It's being built at a rapid pace.”
Aug 1, 2019 · Rally“We're building the wall faster and better than ever.”
Aug 1, 2019 · Rally“The radical Democrats even support deadly sanctuary cities which release dangerous criminals onto our streets, sanctuary cities.”
Aug 1, 2019 · Interview“Many of these people are not good people. They're convicted of lots of bad crimes and they want open borders where they just flow into our country.”
Jul 31, 2019 · Social post“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 would then come to the Border! @CNN”
Jul 30, 2019 · Remarks“The problem is open borders mean tremendous crime.”
Jul 27, 2019 · Social post“Democrats don't care about Border Security. They refuse to give the votes necessary to fix the Loopholes and Asylum. Would be so easy! They want Open Borders, which means CRIME,CRIME,CRIME!”
Jul 26, 2019 · Remarks“We're building beautiful, new wall. A lot of it. And it's getting built rapidly.”
Jul 23, 2019 · Speech“They want open borders, which means crime, which means drugs and human trafficking.”
Jul 22, 2019 · Social post“When we rip down and totally replace a badly broken and dilapidated Barrier on the Southern Border, something which cannot do the job, the Fake News Media gives us zero credit for building a new Wall. We have replaced…
Jul 17, 2019 · Rally“[On human traffickers] They're not going through our points, they're not going through areas where we have security, where we have guards where we have gates where we have all sorts of equipment. No, they ride through…
Jul 17, 2019 · Rally“They want that wall, that's being built right now.”
Jul 17, 2019 · Rally“They [Hispanics] understand the border better than anybody. And they don't want criminals coming in, they don't want crime coming.”
Jul 17, 2019 · Rally“The Democrats’ open border policies deplete our public services, overcrowd our schools and hospitals, and bring crime, drugs and deadly gangs into our community.”
Jul 16, 2019 · Remarks“We're using the Mexican immigration laws, because that's Mexico. And those laws say you can actually tell a person, "I'm sorry. You can't come in. Get out." Or they can take them back to a point of origin.”
Jul 16, 2019 · Remarks“But we're building a lot of wall right now. But it's being met with force. There's no question about it. The Democrats are fighting us on a wall so people can come through.”
Jul 15, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a wall as we speak.”
Jul 12, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is being built. The wall is being built.”
Jul 11, 2019 · Social post“He [Paul Ryan] promised me the Wall, & failed (happening anyway!)”
Jul 7, 2019 · Social post“We are building the Wall now, but the reason the badly needed Wall wasn't approved in the Republican controlled House and Senate was that we had a very slim majority in the Senate, & needed 9 Democrat votes.”
Jul 5, 2019 · Remarks“As you know, President Obama had separation. President Obama, in 2014, built the cells that you always show on television. They were built -- they were built by President Obama. But he had separation. The one thing he…
Jul 1, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is being built.”
Jul 1, 2019 · Remarks“The Democrats want open borders. Open borders means tremendous crime.”
Jun 29, 2019 · Press conference“We're building a lot of wall.”
Jun 29, 2019 · Press conference“Under President Obama, we had separation. … They had a separation policy. Right? I ended it.”
Jun 29, 2019 · Press conference“Their immigration laws [in Mexico] are very strong. Ours are a disaster.”
Jun 26, 2019 · Social post“Too bad the Dems in Congress won't do anything at all about Border Security. They want Open Borders, which means crime.”
Jun 26, 2019 · Social post“Democrats want Open Borders, which equals violent crime, drugs and human trafficking.”
Jun 26, 2019 · Social post“But we are getting it done, including building the Wall! ”
Jun 25, 2019 · Remarks“I'm very concerned [about the conditions at these border facilities]. And they're much better than they were under President Obama, by far.”
Jun 25, 2019 · Remarks“As far as the wall is concerned, the wall is heavily under construction.”
Jun 24, 2019 · Interview“I took over Obama's policy. It was a policy of separation. I'm the one that put them together.”
Jun 24, 2019 · Interview“And, and by the way, we've built a lot of wall.”
Jun 23, 2019 · Interview“You know, under President Obama you had separation. I was the one that ended it.”
Jun 22, 2019 · Remarks“They said that, in the last caravan, they had hundreds of people that commit crimes trying to come into our country.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“[Responding to a question about incomplete record-keeping during Trump’s family separations.] Many of those records were Obama records, and they had separation and they had the exact same thing during the Obama years.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“We're building the wall right now. People don't understand. We are building the wall right now. It is under major construction.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“They [Mexico] have very strong immigration laws. We don't.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“President Obama had separation. I'm the one that brought it together. … I inherited separation.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“Open borders … means crimes, it means drugs.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“Now, when I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn't have it, he had it. I brought the families together. I'm the one that put them together.”
Jun 20, 2019 · Interview“But you have to understand, they were separated with President Obama. They were separated with President Bush. I didn't change the policy, and the policy had been changed, it was -- I'm the one that ended separation.…
Jun 19, 2019 · Interview“And the other thing finally is Mexico for the first time ever, for the first time in many, many decades, they are respecting us. And we had a big fight and it worked out great. And Mexico now has 6,000 soldiers on the…
Jun 18, 2019 · Rally“And we are building the wall. We're going to have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year. … I changed the design, it's stronger, bigger, better, and cheaper.”
Jun 16, 2019 · Social post“The politics will soon mandate, however, because people from California, & all over the land, are demanding that Sanctuary Cities be GONE. No illegals, Drugs or Trafficking!”
Jun 14, 2019 · Interview“We won a big lawsuit on the wall. Brought by Nancy Pelosi. This one was brought by Nancy Pelosi. And maybe that's criminal that she's allowing drug dealers and gang members into our country.”
Jun 14, 2019 · Interview“So the wall is going up. It's going up rapidly. We're going to have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year. The wall is very important. It's hard to breach it. It's high. It's strong. It's powerful. And…
Jun 12, 2019 · Remarks“Mexico has very, very strong immigration laws.”
Jun 11, 2019 · Remarks“And open borders means crime.”
Jun 10, 2019 · Remarks“We're building the wall. We're going to have close to 500 miles of wall built by the end of next year. That’s a lot.”
Jun 10, 2019 · Remarks“They have to work and get something done because you got a tremendous problem at the border. You have people pouring in. And it means crime. It means drugs. It means so many other things.”
Jun 10, 2019 · Interview“The Democrats refuse to do anything on illegal immigration. They want open borders and they don't mind crime, they don't mind human trafficking, they don't mind drugs.”
Jun 10, 2019 · Social post“In fact, the Democrats are doing NOTHING, they want Open Borders, which means Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Crime.”
Jun 2, 2019 · Remarks“They have to stop the illegal flow -- the flow of drugs; of immigrants, illegal immigrants -- people that have not gone through the process. We have people -- we want people to come into our country, but they have to…
Jun 2, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is under construction and moving along quickly, despite all of the Radical Liberal Democrat lawsuits. What are they thinking as our Country is invaded by so many people (illegals) and things (Drugs) that we…
Jun 1, 2019 · Social post“Like Mexican companies will move back to the United States once the Tariff reaches the higher levels. They took many of our companies & jobs, the foolish Pols let it happen, and now they will come back unless Mexico…
May 31, 2019 · Social post“Hard to believe that with the Crisis on the Border, the Dems won't do the quick and easy fix. Would solve the problem but they want Open Borders, which equals crime!”
May 25, 2019 · Social post“Another activist Obama appointed judge has just ruled against us on a section of the Southern Wall that is already under construction. This is a ruling against Border Security and in favor of crime, drugs and human…
May 23, 2019 · Remarks“We will soon have hundreds of miles under construction and we'll have way over 400 miles completed by the end of next year.”
May 22, 2019 · Social post“Much of the Wall being built at the Southern Border is a complete demolition and rebuilding of old and worthless barriers with a brand new Wall and footings. Problem is, the Haters say that is not a new Wall, but…
May 21, 2019 · Social post“I am very disappointed that Mexico is doing virtually nothing to stop illegal immigrants from coming to our Southern Border.”
May 20, 2019 · Interview“We're working with the Democrats but they seem to want open borders. It's crazy. They want open borders. They want these people to flood in. It means crimes and problems. … So they are really for open borders, they're…
May 20, 2019 · Interview“We're building massive amounts of wall right now. By the end of next year we're going to have probably close to 500 miles of wall -- that's gonna stop a lot of the problem that we have.”
May 20, 2019 · Rally“The wall is being built as we speak, we'll have almost 500 miles of wall by the end of next year.”
May 19, 2019 · Interview“We're fighting the Democrats, the Democrats want open border. That means crime.”
May 19, 2019 · Interview“We'll have, by the end of next year, 450 to 500 miles built of the -- of the wall itself and the border wall.”
May 16, 2019 · Speech“Importantly, we're already building the wall, and we should have close to 400 miles built by the end of next year, and probably even more than that. It’s going up very rapidly.”
May 16, 2019 · Speech“Everyone agrees that the physical infrastructure on the border and the ports of entry is gravely underfunded and woefully inadequate. We scan only a small fraction of the vehicles, goods, and all of the other things…
May 8, 2019 · Rally“Without the wall nothing works, folks. You know that. So we're going to have over 400 miles of wall built, it's already -- much of it's already started. By the end of next year -- and we'll conclude it pretty shortly…
May 8, 2019 · Rally“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 big enough numbers but they're getting bigger, they're getting…
May 1, 2019 · Interview“We're building the wall, and by next year -- the end of next year we will have probably around 400 miles of wall up. We're building a lot of it now, we've given out a lot of contracts, we have a lot of contracts that…
May 1, 2019 · Social post“Wall is being built - 400 miles by end of next year.”
Apr 28, 2019 · Interview“You have lawyers standing at the border, our people, lawyers, wise guys standing at the border, signing people up.”
Apr 28, 2019 · Interview“When -- when they used to separate children, which was done during the Obama administration, with Bush, with us.”
Apr 28, 2019 · Interview“We're building a lot of wall. We're going to have 400 miles of wall up by the end of next year.”
Apr 27, 2019 · Rally“We're building the wall, by the way, we're going to have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year.”
Apr 27, 2019 · Rally“The border crisis is also driving, and very strongly the drug crisis, the biggest crisis we have -- drugs. It's people and its drugs and its traffickers.”
Apr 27, 2019 · Rally“Obviously open borders bring tremendous crime.”
Apr 26, 2019 · Speech“The Democrats are also working hard to block the wall. But we are building the wall.”
Apr 26, 2019 · Speech“Democrats also support sanctuary cities that release thousands of dangerous criminal aliens onto our streets.”
Apr 25, 2019 · Interview“We are building many sections of wall right now; that's under construction right now.”
Apr 24, 2019 · Speech“When that wall is finished...That'll have a tremendous impact on drugs coming into our country.”
Apr 24, 2019 · Speech“Soon we're going to have the wall. It's going to be a very powerful wall. It's under construction. The media doesn't like talking about it.”
Apr 23, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is being rapidly built!”
Apr 22, 2019 · Remarks“It's being built now. Here's a young guy who said, 'Keep building that wall.' Can you believe it?”
Apr 17, 2019 · Interview“People are pouring up, to a certain extent because of the economy. But they're coming up because the laws are bad. The Democrats won't change them in Congress. They want open borders. They want people to come…
Apr 17, 2019 · Interview“I'm building the wall....We're building a lot of wall right now.”
Apr 17, 2019 · Social post“Big sections of Wall now being built!”
Apr 15, 2019 · Remarks“Asylum is a ridiculous situation. People come in, they read a line from a lawyer that a lawyer hands them out online.”
Apr 13, 2019 · Social post“Democrats must change the Immigration Laws FAST. If not, Sanctuary Cities must immediately ACT to take care of the Illegal Immigrants - and this includes Gang Members, Drug Dealers, Human Traffickers, and Criminals of…
Apr 12, 2019 · Speech“[Undocumented immigrants are] given a statement to read by lawyers that stand there waiting for them, "Read this statement." And it says, "I have great fear for my life I have great fear for being in my country." Even…
Apr 12, 2019 · Speech“The wall is going up. It's going up fairly rapidly. We're doing another big section. We start another big section tomorrow. But we're building miles and miles of wall. And we're going to have -- I think we'll be close…
Apr 12, 2019 · Speech“Mexico is now apprehending and bringing back to the various countries that we're talking about -- Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador -- they're bringing people back to those countries; Colombia, to a certain extent --…
Apr 10, 2019 · Remarks“We've built a lot of wall. A lot of wall. And it's new wall. You know, when we rip down an old wall and then replace it, it's called a new wall. And that's what we've done. A lot of wall is going up.”
Apr 10, 2019 · Remarks“So we built an incredible new wall it was even my design, my design, our contractors, they just left. The tractor marks are right there, the machinery is still there, and these people left, they said we didn't build a…
Apr 9, 2019 · Remarks“They're all reading exactly what the lawyer gives them. They have a piece of paper. "Read what that is." And all of the sudden, you're entitled to asylum.”
Apr 9, 2019 · Remarks“They want to have open borders, which means they want to have crime.”
Apr 9, 2019 · Remarks“So we are building a lot of wall. It's getting built. Some of you saw that last week, when we went -- we had a great presentation of a new stretch.”
Apr 9, 2019 · Remarks“Just so you understand, President Obama separated the children. Those cages that were shown -- I think they were very inappropriate -- they were built by President Obama's administration, not by Trump. President Obama…
Apr 6, 2019 · Speech“[Asylum seekers] read a little page given by lawyers that are all over the place, you know, my lawyers, they tell them what to say. ”
Apr 6, 2019 · Speech“Well, you know, close the border. We stop about $500 billion worth of drugs from pouring into our country.”
Apr 6, 2019 · Speech“We've started building walls -- actually, a while ago, from the first 1.6 billion and renovation of a lot of walls, we can do that a lot cheaper. We had walls that were potentially very good, but they were in very bad…
Apr 6, 2019 · Speech“I really thank the president of Mexico because they stepped up and now they are apprehending people on their southern border...Mexico is apprehended 14,000 people yesterday, a thousand people today, before they've…
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“[Mexico is] apprehending everybody. Yesterday, they apprehended 1,400 people. The day before, it was a thousand. And if they apprehend people at their southern border, where they don't have to walk through, that's a…
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“[Gang members from Central America] have lawyers greeting them. They read what the lawyer tells them to read. They're gang members. And they say, "I fear for my life. I..." They're the ones that are causing fear for…
Apr 5, 2019 · Social post“Will soon be landing in Calexico, California to look at a portion of the new WALL being built on our Southern Border. Within two years we will have close to 400 miles built or under construction & keeping our Country…
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall. We're going to show you a section. And a lot of things are happening.”
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall. We're going to look at a piece of it today...And I was just told it had a tremendous -- it's had a tremendous impact already -- the piece that we're going to be looking at.”
Apr 5, 2019 · Social post“The Crazed and Dishonest Washington Post again purposely got it wrong. Mexico, for the first time in decades, is meaningfully apprehending illegals at THEIR Southern Border, before the long march up to the U.S.”
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“That’s why, if we stop them at the southern border of Mexico — which, right now, Mexico is doing — that would be a fantastic thing. And I think that’s happening. I think it’s hap- — never been before. Never — nobody’s…
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“So, behind us is the wall. That's the new wall. We've done a lot of it, and we're doing a lot more. You see it over here.”
Apr 5, 2019 · Social post“Just checked out the new Wall on the Border - GREAT! Leaving now for L.A.”
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“I mean, they pour into these areas that -- sanctuary cities are a disaster.”
Apr 5, 2019 · Social post“Heading to the Southern Border to show a section of the new Wall being built! Leaving now!”
Apr 5, 2019 · Remarks“And we're not even talking about the drugs, the massive amount of drugs that pours through. And it would have a tremendous impact. And we're going to be working on that. We've been working on that.”
Apr 4, 2019 · Remarks“They [Mexico] have the strongest immigration laws -- as strong as there is anywhere in the world.”
Apr 4, 2019 · Remarks“The wall is under construction, by the way -- large sections.”
Apr 4, 2019 · Remarks“So for the last four days -- and you actually have covered it to a very minor extent -- Mexico has been capturing people and bringing them back to their countries at their southern border. They've been taking people…
Apr 4, 2019 · Remarks“Mexico, in the last four days, has really done a great job on their southern border -- with Honduras, with Guatemala, with El Salvador -- of grabbing and taking and bringing people back to their countries, because…
Apr 4, 2019 · Remarks“Mexico has the strongest immigration laws anywhere in the world. They don't have courts like we do. We have a stupid system of courts. It's the craziest thing in the world. We could be the only country that has it. If…
Apr 4, 2019 · Remarks“Massive amounts of -- a large -- most of the drugs -- much of the drugs coming into our country come through the southern border in all different ways, much of it where we don't have walls.”
Apr 2, 2019 · Remarks“They [Democrats] don't want to change it because they want open borders, which means crimes -- and lots of other things coming in, including drugs.”
Apr 2, 2019 · Remarks“Mexico, as you know, as of yesterday, has been starting to apprehend a lot of people at their southern border coming in from Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador. And they've -- they're really apprehending thousands…
Apr 2, 2019 · Remarks“Mexico has the strongest immigration laws in the world. There's nobody who has stronger. I guess some have the same, but you can't get any stronger than what Mexico has.”
Apr 2, 2019 · Speech“I said to Mexico last week -- you know, they have the strongest immigration laws in the world. They don't have judges. Somebody gets on their land, they say, 'Get out of here, now.'”
Apr 2, 2019 · Social post“After many years (decades), Mexico is apprehending large numbers of people at their Southern Border, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. They have ALL been taking U.S. money for years, and doing…
Mar 30, 2019 · Social post“Mexico must use its very strong immigration laws to stop the many thousands of people trying to get into the USA. Our detention areas are maxed out & we will take no more illegals. Next step is to close the Border!…
Mar 29, 2019 · Remarks“[Mexico has] the strongest immigration laws anywhere in the world.”
Mar 29, 2019 · Remarks“[Mexico has] the strongest immigration laws anywhere -- anywhere in the world. ”
Mar 29, 2019 · Remarks“When you close the border, also you will stop a lot of the drugs from coming in. Because we take in tremendous drugs from Mexico, as you know as well as I do. So you close up the border and you watch the drugs go way…
Mar 29, 2019 · Remarks“We’re building the wall. But until the wall is completed -- and it’s really moving along well.”
Mar 29, 2019 · Social post“Mexico has the strongest [immigration laws in the world], & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S.”
Mar 29, 2019 · Remarks“And we're right now building a lot of wall in the southern border.”
Mar 28, 2019 · Social post“We have a National Emergency at our Southern Border. The Dems refuse to do what they know is necessary - amend our immigration laws. Would immediately solve the problem! Mexico, with the strongest immigration laws in…
Mar 28, 2019 · Rally“We are building that wall. Building -- We are building that wall.”
Mar 28, 2019 · Rally“We are also protecting America's borders and we are taking on the extremist and they are really radical, radical extremist Democrats who want open borders in crime because that's what happens.”
Mar 27, 2019 · Interview“We are building many miles [of the wall]. We're going to have hundreds of miles already under construction are soon to be under construction”
Mar 22, 2019 · Interview“Now -- and by the way, we're building a lot of wall right now.”
Mar 15, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall right now. It's started. A lot of people are saying, "Well, gee, you took down wall and you're building new." Well, we took down wall that almost didn't exist.”
Mar 15, 2019 · Remarks“As we take action to restore our national sovereignty and defend this nation from criminal cartels, human traffickers, and drug smugglers. Crime of all kinds coming through our southern border and other places.”
Mar 15, 2019 · Remarks“And the only option then is to release them, but we can't do that either. Because when you release them, they come into our society, and in many cases they're stone-cold criminals. And in many cases, and in some…
Mar 14, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall. There's a lot of wall going up. I don't know if you see it. I don't know if you want to see it. But we're building a lot of wall, and there's a lot of contracts being let out, actually…
Mar 14, 2019 · Social post“A big National Emergency vote today by The United States Senate on Border Security & the Wall (which is already under major construction). I am prepared to veto, if necessary. The Southern Border is a National…
Mar 13, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall, as you all know.”
Mar 13, 2019 · Social post“Republican Senators are overthinking tomorrow’s vote on National Emergency. It is very simply Border Security/No Crime - Should not be thought of any other way. We have a MAJOR NATIONAL EMERGENCY at our Border and the…
Mar 9, 2019 · Social post“Wacky Nut Job @AnnCoulter, who still hasn't figured out that, despite all odds and an entire Democrat Party of Far Left Radicals against me (not to mention certain Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight), I am…
Mar 9, 2019 · Social post“Border Patrol and Law Enforcement has apprehended (captured) large numbers of illegal immigrants at the Border. They won't be coming into the U.S. The Wall is being built and will greatly help us in the future, and…
Mar 8, 2019 · Social post“The Wall is being built and is well under construction. Big impact will be made. Many additional contracts are close to being signed. Far ahead of schedule despite all of the Democrat Obstruction and Fake News!”
Mar 4, 2019 · Remarks“Sanctuary cities that release known criminal aliens put all Americans at risk.”
Mar 4, 2019 · Remarks“One in three migrant women is sexually assaulted on the very dangerous journey north.”
Mar 2, 2019 · Remarks“You know I'm building the wall. We're finishing the wall.”
Mar 2, 2019 · Remarks“Visa lottery. That's where they put in the names, they put it in a lottery, and you pick, ‘Oh, here's a wonderful person.’ Wonderful. You know, he killed four people. … That person just came into our country he just…
Mar 2, 2019 · Remarks“And when those caravans are formed do you think those countries that we used to give a lot of money to … Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. Do you think they're giving us, as we say, their best and their finest? ‘Oh…
Feb 28, 2019 · Interview“We're going to be building over 200 miles of wall. I'm going to call it a wall as supposed to barriers or slats. They said, could you call it slats or barriers? We played the game for a little while and then you just…
Feb 25, 2019 · Remarks“Most drugs -- most of the major drugs are coming through the southern border. This will make it -- you're never going to stop it completely, but we can stop it a lot. ”
Feb 25, 2019 · Social post“I hope our great Republican Senators don’t get led down the path of weak and ineffective Border Security. Without strong Borders, we don't have a Country - and the voters are on board with us. Be strong and smart…
Feb 25, 2019 · Remarks“I expect to have 250 to 300 miles of wall built in the very near future. Secretary Nielsen is here right now, and we have -- we will shortly have about 200 miles under construction. We just started a 47-mile patch. We…
Feb 25, 2019 · Remarks“But if we had a wall, we'd save a fortune not only on drugs that are being smuggled into the country. And you're talking about billions and billions and billions of dollars' worth of drugs. But we'd save it just on…
Feb 21, 2019 · Social post“THE WALL IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW!”
Feb 20, 2019 · Social post“We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 – 47 days ahead of schedule! Many miles more now under construction! #FinishTheWall”
Feb 19, 2019 · Remarks“We're doing very well on the wall. We're building a lot of wall right now. You know that.”
Feb 16, 2019 · Social post“BUILDING THE WALL!”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“You have chain migration, where a bad person comes in, brings 22 or 23 or 35 of his family members -- because he has his mother, his grandmother, his sister, his cousin, his uncle -- they're all in. You know what…
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“You can't take human traffic, women and girls -- you can't take them through ports of entry..... They go through areas where you have no wall. Everybody knows that.”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We're right now in construction with wall in some of the most important areas. And we have renovated a tremendous amount of wall, making it just as new.”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into our country, much of it coming from the southern border.“
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country that we stop, but it's very hard to stop. With a wall, it would be very easy.”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“I've built a lot of wall. I have a lot of money, and I've built a lot of wall. But it would've been nice to have gotten done.”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“I get my numbers from a lot of sources -- like Homeland Security, primarily. And the numbers that I have from Homeland Security are a disaster. And you know what else is a disaster? The numbers that come out of…
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“And, by the way, the USMCA, from Mexico -- that's United States, Mexico, Canada -- that's where the money is coming from, not directly but indirectly, for the wall. ”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“And then you have the lottery. It's a horror show, because when countries put people into the lottery, they're not putting you in; they're putting some very bad people in the lottery. It's common sense. If I ran a…
Feb 13, 2019 · Remarks“We're very far along [on the border wall]. Building a lot of it right now, as we speak.”
Feb 13, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall right now, with money that we already have. … We already have, as you know, a lot of money where we're building existing wall with the existing funds.”
Feb 13, 2019 · Remarks“So much crime comes in through our southern border.”
Feb 12, 2019 · Social post“Was just presented the concept and parameters of the Border Security Deal by hard working Senator Richard Shelby. Looking over all aspects knowing that this will be hooked up with lots of money from other…
Feb 12, 2019 · Remarks“In fact, I noticed yesterday, when I got to El Paso, they had signs, ‘Finish the Wall,’ instead of ‘Build the Wall.’ Because we're doing a lot of wall right now. Just started a big portion of the wall in the Rio…
Feb 12, 2019 · Remarks“Drugs … don't believe people when they say it all comes through the portals -- it doesn't -- the ports of entry. It comes through -- the big loads come through the border, where you don't have wall, where they can…
Feb 12, 2019 · Social post“... the Wall is being built and will be a great achievement and contributor toward life and safety within our Country!”
Feb 11, 2019 · Interview“We don't even say build the wall anymore. We say finish the wall because we've built a lot and we're renovating a tremendous amount of old stuff that was really in bad shape but it had good structure.”
Feb 11, 2019 · Rally“We can have such a big cut in the numbers [of drugs brought in], in the percentages, if we get the Wall built -- if we have a strong Wall with other things, but we need the Wall and it has to be built and we want to…
Feb 11, 2019 · Rally“Sanctuary Cities that get Americans killed, they're immoral.”
Feb 11, 2019 · Rally“Open borders are dangerous and immoral.”
Feb 11, 2019 · Remarks“I think we've made a lot of progress. We've actually started a big, big portion of wall today in a very important location. And it's going to go up pretty quickly over the next nine months...And it's a much better…
Feb 11, 2019 · Remarks“I just got this from Homeland Security. And you look at this -- thousands of people. Dangerous drugs: 76,000 people. Then you have traffic offenses. That's not so good, but that's -- every crime. Assault: 63,000…
Feb 3, 2019 · Interview“This really is an invasion of our country by human traffickers. These are people that are horrible people bringing in women mostly, but bringing in women and children into our country. Human trafficking.”
Feb 3, 2019 · Interview“She's costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars because what's happening is when you have a porous border.”
Feb 1, 2019 · Remarks“What we're building is incredible. We're building a lot of wall right now.”
Feb 1, 2019 · Remarks“It's an invasion like you've never seen before. You talk about heroin -- 90 percent of the heroin coming into our country comes in through the southern border. We can stop so much of that [with a wall].”
Feb 1, 2019 · Remarks“Human trafficking by airplane is almost impossible. Human trafficking by van and truck, in the backseat of a car, and going through a border where there's nobody for miles and miles, and there's no wall to protect --…
Jan 31, 2019 · Interview“You know I'm building the wall. You know that. I'm building the wall right now. I’m building — it’s been funded, and we're buying it right. And we're renovating large sections of wall. We're building new sections of…
Jan 31, 2019 · Remarks“We're building the wall right now. I mean, a lot of people don't know that, but we have a lot of wall under construction.”
Jan 31, 2019 · Social post“Schumer and the Democrats are big fans of being weak and passive with Iran. They have no clue as to the danger they would be inflicting on our Country. Iran is in financial chaos now because of the sanctions and Iran…
Jan 31, 2019 · Interview“National security is very important and we're fighting over — a very important element is the southern border. When we talk about drugs coming from China, the fentanyl — you look at the heroin and a lot of the other…
Jan 31, 2019 · Social post“Large sections of WALL have already been built with much more either under construction or ready to go. Renovation of existing WALLS is also a very big part of the plan to finally, after many decades, properly Secure…
Jan 30, 2019 · Interview“I'm already building a tremendous amount of wall. People don't realize that. I'm going to be announcing the exact numbers but I'll have over a hundred miles of wall either built or under construction between new and…
Jan 27, 2019 · Social post“We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been…
Jan 27, 2019 · Social post“BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL!”
Jan 25, 2019 · Remarks“Vast quantities of lethal drugs -- including meth, fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine -- are smuggled across our southern border and into U.S. schools and communities. Drugs kill much more than 70,000 Americans a year and…
Jan 25, 2019 · Remarks“They [walls] keep drugs out, and they dramatically increase efficiency by allowing us to patrol far larger areas with far fewer people. It’s just common sense.”
Jan 24, 2019 · Social post“Without a Wall there cannot be safety and security at the Border or for the U.S.A. BUILD THE WALL AND CRIME WILL FALL!”
Jan 24, 2019 · Remarks“We have to have a wall in this country. We have criminals pouring into our country. And I'm not talking about the southern border. They don't stay there. They go through and they permeate all throughout the country…
Jan 24, 2019 · Remarks“And I know our drug rates -- our drug -- what's happening is the drugs are pouring in. And, yes, they come through the ports of entry, but the big trucks come through areas where you don't have a wall and you have…
Jan 23, 2019 · Remarks“You have chain migration, where, as an example, the killer -- the man who ran over people on the West Side Highway in New York -- 8 people killed, 12 injured. And when you say '12 injured,' nobody knows how badly…
Jan 23, 2019 · Remarks“We're building a lot of wall as we speak -- a tremendous amount.”
Jan 23, 2019 · Remarks“In the last caravan, we had 618 people with criminal records, and some of them very serious records.”
Jan 23, 2019 · Remarks“If you take a look at the visa lottery -- when there's a lottery, do you think they're putting their best people into those lotteries? It's a lottery. You know what a lottery is. Does anybody think they're putting…
Jan 20, 2019 · Social post“Don’t forget, we are building and renovating big sections of Wall right now. Moving quickly, and will cost far less than previous politicians thought possible. Building, after all, is what I do best, even when money…
Jan 19, 2019 · Remarks“We're building wall as we speak. Nobody covers that. And I understand that. But we're building wall as we speak, we're going to continue.”
Jan 19, 2019 · Speech“The lack of border control provides a gateway, and a very wide and open gateway, for criminals and gang members to enter the United States, including the criminal aliens who murdered a brave California police officer…
Jan 19, 2019 · Speech“However, the whole concept of having lengthy trials, for anyone who sets one foot in our country unlawfully, must be changed by Congress. It is unsustainable. It is ridiculous. Few places in the world would even…
Jan 17, 2019 · Social post“In 2018 alone, 20,000 illegal aliens with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the Border.”
Jan 17, 2019 · Speech“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.”
Jan 14, 2019 · Speech“We had a guy -- a radical Islamic terrorist in New York -- area I know very well -- driving down the West Side highway. ....And 8 people died; 12 or 13 were injured.... And he's allowed to have his family come here.…
Jan 14, 2019 · Speech“I've built a lot of wall.”
Jan 13, 2019 · Social post“The building of the Wall on the Southern Border will bring down the crime rate throughout the entire Country!”
Jan 12, 2019 · Interview“And all of the trade deals we're making with Mexico -- and, by the way, Mexico is paying for the wall because the trade deal is billions and billions of dollars better than the old NAFTA deal. And I call that --…
Jan 11, 2019 · Remarks“You know, we're building the wall right now as we speak.”
Jan 11, 2019 · Social post“The Steel Barrier, or Wall, should have been built by previous administrations long ago. They never got it done - I will. Without it, our Country cannot be safe. Criminals, Gangs, Human Traffickers, Drugs & so much…
Jan 11, 2019 · Remarks“Most of the problem -- we get a lot -- we get a lot of drugs, a lot of things at the checkpoints, but they're usually hidden in hubcaps, in engines, and under the floor. But the big stuff comes in in between the…
Jan 11, 2019 · Social post“I often said during rallies, with little variation, that 'Mexico will pay for the Wall.' We have just signed a great new Trade Deal with Mexico. It is Billions of Dollars a year better than the very bad NAFTA deal…
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“[Mexico is] paying for it with the incredible deal we made, called the United States, Mexico, and Canada USMCA deal.
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“When I say Mexico is going to pay for the wall, do you think they're going to write a check for $20 billion or $20 billion or $5 billion or 2 cents? No. They're paying for the wall in a great trade deal. You had the…
Jan 10, 2019 · Interview“We've built a lot of wall we've renovated tremendous amount of wall with money that we've already gotten and we're continuing that.”
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“We're already building [the border wall.”
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“We don't want drugs pouring in. Most of our drugs come in through the southern border. And they don't come in through the portals; they come in between the portals where you have no barrier.”
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“So that's it. Just a couple of things, because I knew the fake news likes to say it. When -- during the campaign, I would say, "Mexico is going to pay for it." Obviously, I never said this and I never meant they're…
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“But if you don't have a steel barrier or a wall of some kind -- strong, powerful -- you're going to have human trafficking; you're going to have drugs pouring across the border; you're going to have MS-13 and the…
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“And what you see on the border, that's not as much of a problem as they come through the border and they go out throughout our nation. So you'll have crime in Iowa. You'll have crime in New Hampshire. You'll have…
Jan 10, 2019 · Interview“And we had a barrier, a steel barrier, a concrete barrier, call it whatever you want. [Drugs] wouldn't have [been captured]. We wouldn't have the problem.”
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“And if Congress approves this incredible trade bill that we made with Mexico -- and Canada, by the way -- but with Mexico, in this case -- they're paying for the wall many, many times over.”
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“And as hard as we work, and well as we're doing nationwide on crime, a lot of it is caused by people that come that in through the southern border. So -- and, you know, if we had the barrier, it wouldn't happen. It…
Jan 10, 2019 · Remarks“And I will say, we've done a lot of renovation. And we have a lot of new wall going up where we took down wall because it was in such bad shape, and we put new wall up.”
Jan 9, 2019 · Remarks“We need a barrier to stop the human traffickers and the drug trade, and to stop all of the big problems that come, including gangs. They don't come through your checkpoints; they come through areas where you have…
Jan 9, 2019 · Social post“This is why we need a wall: Illegal immigration is a serious threat to our country. 90% of all heroin comes across the border. Thousands of kids are Sex trafficked. Illegals cost US taxpayers $135 billion a year. We…
Jan 9, 2019 · Social post“Did you know: At our Southern Border, in 2018: 1.7 MILLION pounds of narcotics were seized. 17,000 criminals were arrested. 6,000 gang members—including violent MS-13 Animals—were apprehended. Protect America - BUILD…
Jan 8, 2019 · Speech“The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico.”
Jan 8, 2019 · Speech“The border wall would very quickly pay for itself. The cost of illegal drugs exceeds $500 billion a year, vastly more than the $5.7 billion we have requested from Congress.”
Jan 8, 2019 · Speech“Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now.”
Jan 6, 2019 · Social post“[The wall is] about stopping human traffickers. It's about stopping drugs. So we have to have it. Got to have it. But we have no choice. It's not a question.”
Jan 6, 2019 · Remarks“You know, when they say "build the wall," I don't say that anymore. I say "finish the wall." Because we have done a lot of work.”
Jan 6, 2019 · Remarks“If we don't have border security, we're going to be crime-ridden, and it's going get worse and worse.”
Jan 5, 2019 · Social post“We are working hard at the Border, but we need a WALL! In 2018, 1.7 million pounds of narcotics seized, 17,000 adults arrested with criminal records, and 6000 gang members, including MS-13, apprehended. A big Human…
Jan 4, 2019 · Press conference“We've already built a lot of the wall. We’ve been working very, very hard.”
Jan 4, 2019 · Press conference“The drugs are pouring into this country. They don't go through the ports of entry.”
Jan 4, 2019 · Press conference“In fact, what we save on the USMCA -- the new trade deal we have with Mexico and Canada -- what we save on that, just with Mexico, will pay for the wall many times over just in a period of a year, two years, and three…
Jan 3, 2019 · Remarks“The people of our country want it. I have never had so much support, as I have in the last week, over my stance for border security, for border control and for, frankly, the wall or the barrier. I have never had…
Jan 3, 2019 · Remarks“In terms of drugs and stopping drugs … plenty, unfortunately, come through our southern border.”
Jan 2, 2019 · Remarks“You know, I've heard numbers as high as $275 billion we lose on illegal immigration. And here you have a wall where you're talking about, to complete -- because again, a lot has already been done.”
Jan 2, 2019 · Remarks“You have the lottery system -- the visa lottery system -- where we bring people into our country based on a lottery. We want to end all of this nonsense, the visa lottery system. So they pick them out of a jar.”
Jan 2, 2019 · Remarks“We're very proud of what we've done with respect to the wall and the renovation that we've done. It's covered a lot of territory. A tremendous amount of miles. And that continues to go on. But we need the wall for the…
Jan 2, 2019 · Social post“Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal. Much of the Wall has already been fully renovated or built. We have done a lot of work. $5.6 Billion Dollars that House has approved is very little in…
Jan 2, 2019 · Remarks“And we'd save money -- so much money -- on a monthly basis. Probably it would pay for itself in a month or two. Because we lose pretty close to $250 billion on illegal immigration. And I would say that it could be on…
Dec 31, 2018 · Video“We need, however, borders. You don't have borders, you don't have a country. We don't want drug traffickers, or human traffickers, or illegal people with criminal records, to come in. Our Border Patrol, our ICE…
Dec 29, 2018 · Social post“Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally.…
Dec 27, 2018 · Social post“Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border. Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking,Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country.”
Dec 26, 2018 · Press conference“We've already built a lot of wall. We're building a lot more, you know, just through the normal budget. And we fixed a tremendous amount of wall -- many miles....We have been building a lot of wall. A lot of people…
Dec 26, 2018 · Press conference“We have, in addition to drugs, in addition to human trafficking, in addition to mass numbers of illegals who are coming in -- many of whom are criminals. You saw that. Six hundred and eighteen, so far, that we found…
Dec 26, 2018 · Speech“No, we have to have it. And, you know, not only human trafficking; drugs; illegals; a lot of criminals -- bad records. We've seen murderers come in through the -- you saw what happened with the caravan, as we call it.…
Dec 25, 2018 · Remarks“We've renovated massive amounts of very good wall. Wall that was good, but was in bad shape, and so, you don't have to replace it, but you have to renovate it. And we've renovated a massive amount of wall, and in…
Dec 25, 2018 · Remarks“We're stopping drugs at a record rate, but we need some help and the help is the wall. We need a wall to help us, otherwise they just flow through, no matter what you do, they just flow through.”
Dec 25, 2018 · Remarks“Open borders mean massive amounts of crime.”
Dec 25, 2018 · Remarks“In the caravan 618 people were -- very bad, in some cases, criminals, wanted for very [Inaudible] You saw the one man, he said he was wanted for murder.”
Dec 25, 2018 · Remarks“I can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they'd like to call it. I'll call it whatever they will. But it's all the same thing: it's a barrier from people pouring into our…
Dec 23, 2018 · Social post“The only way to stop drugs, gangs, human trafficking, criminal elements and much else from coming into our Country is with a Wall or Barrier. Drones and all of the rest are wonderful and lots of fun, but it is only a…
Dec 23, 2018 · Social post“The most important way to stop gangs, drugs, human trafficking and massive crime is at our Southern Border. We need Border Security, and as EVERYONE knows, you can't have Border Security without a Wall. The Drones &…
Dec 21, 2018 · Remarks“[We] spend $285 billion a year on illegal immigration.”
Dec 21, 2018 · Video“It's very dangerous out there. Drugs are pouring in. Human trafficking ...The only thing that's going to stop that is great border security, with a wall, or a slat fence, or whatever you want to call it. But we need a…
Dec 21, 2018 · Social post“Hundreds of $Billions saved [because of the wall]!”
Dec 21, 2018 · Remarks“Drugs are pouring in, and we've done an incredible job considering we have no barrier. But drugs are pouring into our country.”
Dec 20, 2018 · Remarks“The Democrats continue to oppose border security no matter how many innocent people get hurt or die. Ridiculously and dangerously, certain people want open borders, which allow potentially massive crime.”
Dec 20, 2018 · Remarks“Illegal immigration costs our nation $275 billion a year -- you hear many different numbers. You can say 'billions and billions.' But the number that I hear most accurate is $275 billion a year, at least -- millions…
Dec 20, 2018 · Video“I've already started building the wall. We've built large sections, and we're fixing up a lot of other sections that are a mess.”
Dec 18, 2018 · Social post“It will be beautiful and, at the same time, give our Country the security that our citizens deserve. It will go up fast and save us BILLIONS of dollars a month once completed!”
Dec 18, 2018 · Social post“Illegal immigration costs the United States more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. How was this allowed to happen?”
Dec 16, 2018 · Social post“The Democrats policy of Child Seperation on the Border during the Obama Administration was far worse than the way we handle it now. Remember the 2014 picture of children in cages - the Obama years. However, if you…
Dec 13, 2018 · Social post“I often stated, ‘One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall.’ This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly & anti-USA NAFTA deal…
Dec 11, 2018 · Remarks“One thing that I do have to say is tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of wall when you include the renovation of existing fences and walls renovated a tremendous amount, and we've done a lot…
Dec 11, 2018 · Remarks“Look, we have to have the wall. This isn't a question; this is a national emergency. Drugs are pouring into our country.”
Dec 11, 2018 · Social post“A Great Wall would be, however, a far easier & less expensive solution. We have already built large new sections & fully renovated others, making them like new.”
Dec 7, 2018 · Remarks“These outrageous sanctuary cities are grave threats to public safety and national security. Each year, sanctuary cities release thousands of known criminal aliens from their custody and right back into the community.…
Dec 7, 2018 · Remarks“Not one more American life should be stolen because of radical politicians pursuing their open borders agenda. Nearly 100 percent of the heroin in our country comes across the southern border, killing 300 Americans…
Dec 7, 2018 · Remarks“Illegal immigration is a threat to the well-being of every American community, threatening innocent families, overwhelming public resources, and draining the federal treasury.”
Dec 4, 2018 · Social post“Could somebody please explain to the Democrats (we need their votes) that our Country losses 250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration, not including the terrible drug flow. Top Border Security, including a…
Dec 3, 2018 · Social post“We would save Billions of Dollars if the Democrats would give us the votes to build the Wall. Either way, people will NOT be allowed into our Country illegally! We will close the entire Southern Border if necessary.…
Nov 30, 2018 · Interview“Now they have over 650 people that are absolutely stone-cold criminals. I don't want them in our country. I'm not going to have it. If you don't have borders, you don't have a country, Greta. And I'm not going to have…
Nov 26, 2018 · Rally“When you have sanctuary cities, you have crime.”
Nov 26, 2018 · Rally“We have a lot of it [the wall] built and it's going up.”
Nov 26, 2018 · Rally“They have to come in through merit. Through merit. Not through lottery. Not where we picked them out of a basket. Right? When the government puts them -- and you think the government's putting their finest in there? I…
Nov 26, 2018 · Rally“So the wall has started, very, very substantially.”
Nov 26, 2018 · Remarks“Obama had a separation policy; we all had the same policy.”
Nov 26, 2018 · Social post“Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close…
Nov 25, 2018 · Social post“.@60Minutes did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel)…
Nov 22, 2018 · Remarks“You have many criminals in that caravan, and the big caravan hasn't arrived yet.”
Nov 22, 2018 · Remarks“The Democrats want open borders, and they want these people coming in. Many of those people are criminals, okay? And have been so adjudged. We know who they are. They have records. They have, some, very substantial…
Nov 21, 2018 · Social post“There are a lot of CRIMINALS in the Caravan. We will stop them. Catch and Detain! Judicial Activism, by people who know nothing about security and the safety of our citizens, is putting our country in great danger.…
Nov 14, 2018 · Interview“I'm building the wall in smaller stages, and we moved the military there, we put up barbed wire, we did all sorts of things.”
Nov 9, 2018 · Remarks“We need the wall; we're building the wall.”
Nov 7, 2018 · Press conference“You know, we've taken out thousands of MS-13 gang members -- thousands out of our -- hard to believe -- thousands -- out of our country.”
Nov 7, 2018 · Press conference“As you know, we're building the wall. We've started. But we should build it at one time, not in chunks.”
Nov 5, 2018 · Interview“We're moving thousands of MS-13 out of the country. They're being put into jails, and being sent out of the country, and frankly, in a lot of ways, I like out of the country more, because putting them into jail -- let…
Nov 5, 2018 · Rally“We're building the wall, though. We're building the wall. Don't worry. We've already started.”
Nov 5, 2018 · Interview“We lose a hundred billion dollars a year on illegal immigration.”
Nov 5, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs our country more than $100 billion every year. Think of that, $100 billion. And that's a very, very low number. I'm using that low number so they can't criticize me.”
Nov 5, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs our country more than $100 billion every year, and that's more than the budgets of Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin combined.”
Nov 5, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs our country more than $100 billion every single year, and that's more than the budget of Ohio, Montana, and Wyoming combined, all places I've been.”
Nov 5, 2018 · Interview“I'm building it in nice large pieces.”
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“You know, every time I say, ‘You have some rough people in there [the migrant caravan],’ the media says: ‘How dare you? We want to see proof.’ Well, they gave you 300 names yesterday.”
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“They [ICE] are going in to towns and cities and places and they are throwing MS-13 gang members the hell out of our country by the thousands, by the thousands.”
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“Not only do the Democrats' open border policies drain our Treasury, but they endanger every American community. And you people know that better than anybody. Nearly 100 percent of the heroin coming into the United…
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“Nearly 100 percent of the heroin in the United States enters through the southern border, along with roughly 90 percent of cocaine, the majority of meth and a substantial portion of the ultra-lethal fentanyl killing…
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“More Georgia workers are employed today than at any time or any point in American history.”
Nov 4, 2018 · Interview“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment [to revoke birthright citizenship]. Guess what? You don’t. …You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But, now they're saying I can do it…
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs our country more than $100 billion every single year.”
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs our country far more than $100 billion every single year.”
Nov 4, 2018 · Rally“I called up the United States military. We're not playing games, folks. There's no games. Because you look at what's marching up [the migrant caravan], that's an invasion.”
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“There's some bad hombres in that group. So they came out with a list of 300 really bad ones, really bad ones. They're in there, and now they have worse caravans, actually, worse caravans being formed.”
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“So we're building the wall, as you know, it started.”
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“Nearly 100 percent of heroin in the United States enters through our southern border. Along with roughly 90 percent of the cocaine, the majority of meth and a substantial portion of the ultra lethal fentanyl which is…
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers more than $100 billion every single year, roughly 10 times the entire state budget of Montana.”
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“And so this is the second caravan, which is made up of some very tough young people -- very tough -- criminals in some cases, in many cases.”
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“And by the way, we have taken out thousands and thousands of gang members from MS-13 and we got them the hell out of our country.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“We're building the wall.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“We started the wall and built 1.6 billion.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Thousands and thousands of MS-13 gang members have been thrown the hell out of the country.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Think of it, 300 people. You know, we're getting a lot of heat because, I was saying, there were some bad people in that caravan. Right? So we checked, 300 people.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“They [Democrats] want to turn America into a giant sanctuary for violent predators and MS-13 killers.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Nearly 100 percent of heroin in the United States enters through the southern border, along with roughly 90 percent of the cocaine, the majority of meth, and a substantial portion of the ultra-lethal fentanyl, killing…
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Nearly 100 percent of heroin in the United States enters through the southern border, along with roughly 90 percent of cocaine, the majority of meth and a substantial portion of the ultra lethal fentanyl killing our…
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“In the caravan, more than 300 people have criminal records and have serious problems that we don't want to get involved with, folks.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers more than $100 billion every single year, more than three times the entire state budget of Indiana.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Illegal immigration cost American taxpayers more than $100 billion every single year, more than 20 times the entire state budget of the state of West Virginia.”
Nov 2, 2018 · Rally“Homeland Security has just confirmed that members of the lawless caravan, the one you've been watching, come from 20 different countries and among them criminals and gang members convicted of crimes ranging from armed…
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“We're taking thousands and thousands of MS-13 gang members, and we're throwing 'em the hell out of the country back where they came from.”
Nov 1, 2018 · Remarks“Under President Obama, they separated children from the parents. We actually put it so that that didn't happen. … President Obama separated the children, the parents. And nobody complained. When we continued the exact…
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“Think of it. You're an enemy of our country. You're a general with war on your mind. You're a dictator who we hate and who's against us. And that dictator has his wife have a baby on American soil. Congratulations.…
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“Oh, let's see, lottery, lottery, who are these people? You know, when countries do lotteries and they put people in a lottery, do you really believe they're giving us their finest?”
Nov 1, 2018 · Remarks“Illegal immigration costs our country billions and billions of dollars each year.”
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“He [Sayfullo Saipov] is a man that through chain migration brought in his mother, his father, his uncles, his brothers, his sisters. They think it's probably 22 people came on and into this country because of this guy…
Nov 1, 2018 · Remarks“Furthermore, contained within this giant flow of illegal migration to our southwest border is the movement of illicit and deadly narcotics. It's in the southwest, most of it comes in. Nearly 100 percent of heroin in…
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“And, you know, we called up the military, because we're not going to let people come into our country when you look at that illegally. Not going to happen. Our great military. And I don't know if you saw the one is…
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“And the wall is being built. We spent $1.6 billion... we spent another $1.6 billion this last year. We're getting another one -- we want to build it all at one time. We need it. They are doing everything in their…
Nov 1, 2018 · Rally“And by the way, those caravans, you know, you look at what's happening, does anybody think that's just by accident that they're forming? Does anybody think -- does anybody think? You know, I think what happened -- I…
Nov 1, 2018 · Remarks‘The building of the wall, which we've already started. $1.6 billion spent last year; $1.6 billion this year. We have another $1.6 [billion] that will be coming, but we want to build it at one time.”
Oct 31, 2018 · Interview“[Birthright citizenship] cost billions of dollars a year, and it's very unfair to the people that live here.”
Oct 31, 2018 · Remarks“You don't need a Constitutional amendment for birthright citizenship. I believe that you can have a simple vote in Congress, or it's even possible, in my opinion -- this is after meeting with some very talented legal…
Oct 31, 2018 · Interview“We have 10, and we might even go up to 15,000 soldiers on our border.”
Oct 31, 2018 · Interview“Think of it this way: a general who's on an opposing army and we're at war, comes into the United States. They have a baby. He's not here. They have a baby. The baby's a citizen of the United States, and yet the…
Oct 31, 2018 · Social post“The Caravans are made up of some very tough fighters and people. Fought back hard and viciously against Mexico at Northern Border before breaking through. Mexican soldiers hurt, were unable, or unwilling to stop…
Oct 31, 2018 · Social post“So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words…
Oct 31, 2018 · Social post“Our military is being mobilized at the Southern Border. Many more troops coming. We will NOT let these Caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S. Our Border is sacred, must…
Oct 31, 2018 · Social post“It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican Now!'
Oct 31, 2018 · Rally“Even if they've been on our soil for only a matter of seconds, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children are made automatic citizens every year because of this crazy policy, and they are made instantly…
Oct 31, 2018 · Rally“Bill Nelson voted against Kate's law, and he voted to support deadly sanctuary cities that release drug traffickers and violent predators into Florida communities because Bill nelson wants open borders.”
Oct 31, 2018 · Remarks“As far as the caravan, which is very dangerous -- you see what's been happening -- as far as the caravan is concerned, our military is out. We have about 5,800. We'll go up anywhere between 10,000 and 15,000 military…
Oct 31, 2018 · Rally“And the wall is being built.”
Oct 29, 2018 · Social post“Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an…
Oct 29, 2018 · Interview“I'm sending up the military. This is the military. And they're standing there and one thing that we'll have -- When they are captured, we don't let them out. What has been happening and we're not as of pretty recently…
Oct 27, 2018 · Rally“We have taken thousands of MS-13 out of this country, ICE.”
Oct 27, 2018 · Rally“So we started the wall.”
Oct 26, 2018 · Rally“We want the money to finish the wall.”
Oct 26, 2018 · Rally“Chain migration, where we had this bad guy come in from a certain country, and he brought his mother and his father and his uncle and his grandfather and his grandmother and his brother and his sister and his aunt and…
Oct 24, 2018 · Rally“We're getting them out fast. MS-13, thousands and thousands of MS-13, they're out....We are getting them out of this country by the thousands, if you can believe it. But, you know, it's like liberating, like a war…
Oct 24, 2018 · Rally“Visa lottery. We have a lottery. A lottery for people coming to the United States. I don't think those countries are putting their finest in the lottery. We say, how do these people come here? We got them in the…
Oct 24, 2018 · Rally“The Democrat Party is openly encouraging caravan after caravan of illegal aliens to violate our laws and break into our country.”
Oct 23, 2018 · Remarks“Well, there could very well be [terrorists in the migrant caravan from Honduras]. Yeah. There could very well be.”
Oct 23, 2018 · Remarks“We've put up some of the wall.”
Oct 23, 2018 · Remarks“I'm thinking about, thinking about everything, including the military, not just the National Guard. The military is what I'm thinking about. We can't have people coming into our country illegally. …They can do a lot.…
Oct 22, 2018 · Interview“We're building the wall, we're built -- we should be able to build it faster, but we the Democrats are doing everything they can to obstruct and not give us the money to do the wall, even though we've started a very…
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“They came in through the wonderful Obama administration. We removed thousands and thousands of [MS-13]. And the towns are liberated.”
Oct 22, 2018 · Remarks“Take your -- Jon, take your camera, go into the middle, and search. You're going to find MS-13, you're going to find Middle Eastern, you're going to find everything. And guess what? We're not allowing them in our…
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“So we started the wall.”
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“So [Saipov] has 22 people that came in, because he's here.”
Oct 22, 2018 · Social post“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol…
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“O'Rourke voted in favor of sanctuary cities that result in the death of countless Americans.”
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“Do you know how the caravan started? Does everybody know what this means? [Gestures passing out money.] I think the Democrats had something to do with it. And now they're saying, I think we made a big mistake.”
Oct 22, 2018 · Social post“At stake in this Election is whether we continue the extraordinary prosperity we have achieved - or whether we let the Radical Democrat Mob take a giant wrecking ball to our Country and our Economy! #JobsNotMobs”
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“And in that caravan you have some very bad people. You have some very bad people. And we can't let that happen to our country.”
Oct 22, 2018 · Rally“ You know what visa lottery? Countries put name in a batch and you pick them. You pick them. You keep picking them. And then then you got nothing but problems, because you think those countries are putting their…
Oct 20, 2018 · Remarks“You have some very tough criminal elements within the caravan. But I will seal off the border before they come into this country, and I'll bring out our military, not our reserves. I'll bring out our military.”
Oct 20, 2018 · Interview“We have no idea who they are. There are plenty of criminals in that group [the migrant caravan], and you understand that, that's just common sense, but you understand that, and we're not going to allow them to come…
Oct 20, 2018 · Rally“So we started the wall. It's moving along. I want to build it rapidly. I can do it in a year. We did $1.6 billion, $1.6 billion.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Rally“You got some bad people in [the caravan]. You got some tough people in those groups. And I'll tell you what, this country doesn't want them. OK? We don't want them.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Interview“We've already started the wall.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Remarks“We have to have a wall. We're building a wall now, but we should build it very fast.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Remarks“We have the visa lottery, where we take people by lottery from countries. Now, just -- you know, from a business standpoint, do you think they're giving us their finest? We get some real beauties out of the lottery.…
Oct 19, 2018 · Rally“We have removed thousands of MS-13 -- get them the hell out. Thousands! Thousands and thousands.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Interview“Visa lottery, where we take people through a lottery system, and you know who's going into the lottery. They're not giving us their finest.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Rally“The wall is under construction.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Rally“Do you think that this country, whichever country it is, are they going to put you -- are they going to put their finest in there? I don't think so. I don't think so.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Interview“Chain migration. So somebody comes in, and all of a sudden you bring 24, 28, 32, people with that person. It's crazy.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Remarks“But people are coming over from Honduras; they have like 5,000 people. Honduras and Guatemala, El Salvador. And some of these people are hard criminals. Hardened criminals. Not good people. And they broke through in…
Oct 19, 2018 · Remarks“Because many of those people -- a percentage -- a big -- fairly big percentage of those people are criminals, and they want to come into our country. And they're criminals.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Rally“And these allowed -- this guy had 22 people. He brought in his mother, his father, his brother, his sisters, his aunts, his uncles. Because of Democrats' policy. That's called chain migration. It's a chain.”
Oct 19, 2018 · Remarks“And a lot of people are looking at Democrats [as behind the caravan] -- "Why did they gather?" You know, there's a lot of information that is being -- hopefully you people are looking -- but how come this happened.…
Oct 19, 2018 · Rally“And Democrat sanctuary cities release dangerous predators out of a jail and straight into your communities.”
Oct 18, 2018 · Rally“[Tester] voted for amnesty for illegals and against the border wall on numerous occasions. He voted to let drugs in. He voted to let drugs in.”
Oct 18, 2018 · Rally“She opposes the wall, which we've started and we've done a lot of work on it, but I'd like to get it done quickly.”
Oct 18, 2018 · Social post“I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of…
Oct 18, 2018 · Social post“Can you believe this, and what Democrats are allowing to be done to our Country?”
Oct 18, 2018 · Rally“A lot of money has been passing to people to come up and try and get to the border by Election Day, because they think that's a negative for us.”
Oct 16, 2018 · Interview“We're getting the wall. We've already started building it.”
Oct 16, 2018 · Interview“Now President Obama had the same law; he did the same thing.”
Oct 16, 2018 · Social post“'Op-Ed praises Trump Administrations efforts at the Border.' @FoxNews The Washington Examiner States, “Finally, the government has taken steps to stop releasing unaccompanied minors to criminals and traffickers.” This…
Oct 14, 2018 · Interview“That [family separations] was the same as the Obama law. You know, Obama had the same thing.”
Oct 13, 2018 · Rally“[Saipov] will be years of litigation. He came in, and then he took chain migration, and he brought his mother, and his father, and his brother, and his sister, and his aunt, and his grandfather. None of them working.…
Oct 13, 2018 · Interview“We're building a wall. It started already, and we're going to stop a lot of the drugs from coming in.”
Oct 13, 2018 · Rally“They go in there and they liberate towns. These people came in by the thousands, and we're taking them out by the thousands. They're getting out. They're getting out.”
Oct 13, 2018 · Rally“Lottery. Lottery. OK? Names, you pick them out, coming to the United States. Now, let me ask you, these countries set up lotteries. Do you really believe they're giving us their finest? No. This is a lottery. This was…
Oct 13, 2018 · Rally“Democrats want to abolish ICE and they want to turn America into a giant sanctuary for criminal aliens and MS-13 thugs.”
Oct 12, 2018 · Rally“We will finally have a merit-based system of immigration. Not just lump -- not a lottery, pick them out of a hat. Who the hell are they? Who is he? Pick them out of a hat. We're letting people come in on merit, where…
Oct 12, 2018 · Rally“We started building the wall, and we've made progress.”
Oct 12, 2018 · Rally“The Democrats want to turn America into a giant sanctuary city for criminal aliens, MS-13 killers, and anybody else that wants to come in. We're not going to have it. We're not going to have it.”
Oct 12, 2018 · Rally“MS-13 gang, vicious, horrible people. We're throwing them out of here by the thousands.”
Oct 12, 2018 · Rally“In Long Island...you had towns that were practically taken over by MS-13....These towns, like a country that was invaded and taken over and then was liberated. These towns are being liberated of the MS-13 garbage that…
Oct 11, 2018 · Interview“The wall is being built, but it's being built in chunks that I don't like. I'm not happy with it. We're getting $1.6 billion and we've got two of them and now we're getting a third under this budget.”
Oct 10, 2018 · Rally“That's what he's doing. Bob Casey voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities that released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals and vicious gang members to prey on Pennsylvania streets, to prey all over…
Oct 10, 2018 · Social post“Democrats want to outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross our border. We must win this.”
Oct 9, 2018 · Rally“We're getting [MS-13] out of the country, by the way, by the thousands....Thousands. They've taken over towns in Long Island. I mean, literally. It could happen to your community. They've taken over towns in Long…
Oct 9, 2018 · Rally“We're building the wall. We've started. A lot of it's getting done right now. We got $1.6 billion.”
Oct 9, 2018 · Rally“They either send them back where they came from or they put them in jail. And they liberate -- literally, can you imagine we're saying this about places in our country? They liberate towns and small cities in…
Oct 9, 2018 · Rally“He voted to secure our borders, stop the visa lottery horror show. Can you imagine it? This is legislation. They put names in a bin. We picked names. Do you think we're -- they're putting their finest? We get these…
Oct 9, 2018 · Rally“Democrats want to raise your taxes, impose socialism, dismantle law enforcement... ... eliminate ICE... ... and get rid of American borders.”
Oct 8, 2018 · Remarks“Last year alone, ICE removed nearly 130,000 criminal aliens from our country … including thousands of vicious gang members and MS-13 predators.”
Oct 4, 2018 · Rally“But we're making a lot of progress on the wall. A lot of progress. I'd like to do it a lot faster.”
Oct 4, 2018 · Rally“And [Feehan] wants to make Minnesota into -- true -- a sanctuary for the criminal aliens and for gang members.”
Oct 4, 2018 · Rally“And Tina voted for deadly sanctuary cities.”
Oct 2, 2018 · Rally“You have people pouring across. They're tackling people. And then, of course, they have catch and release. You catch somebody. ‘Who is this person?’ ‘It's a criminal.’ ‘Oh, that's OK. Catch, take his name and release…
Oct 2, 2018 · Rally“We're building the wall. It's going up. But getting money is brutal -- brutal. So we've started the wall. And we've done a lot in California and elsewhere -- San Diego. We're moving eastward, and we're covering a lot…
Oct 1, 2018 · Rally“Democrats want activist, left-wing judges who will totally rewrite your laws, erase your borders, and replace your values.”
Oct 1, 2018 · Press conference“But we've been building it over the last year and a half.”
Oct 1, 2018 · Rally“But -- but the wall is under construction. A lot of work has been done. A lot of renovation -- if you look at some of it, some wall was up, falling down, terrible condition, now it's beautiful, brand new, and it…
Oct 1, 2018 · Rally“And the Democrat Party supports sanctuary cities that unleash violent predators, like MS-13, into our communities.”
Sep 29, 2018 · Rally“Finish the wall. We are in the process. It's got another [$1.6 billion], I want to get more, but it's coming. It's coming. We've built a lot of wall already and fixed a lot of wall, but we get that.”
Sep 21, 2018 · Rally“It's getting built -- it's getting built anyways. It's not easy -- yep we're building it, not easy.”
Sep 20, 2018 · Interview“We've got 3.2 billion [dollars for the wall]. It's being built. We've got a billion six, but we have to do much better than that, because we could do it very quickly.”
Sep 20, 2018 · Interview“We're continuing to build the wall. I'd like to do it. I could do it so quickly. I'd like to do it in one piece. The Democrats are holding us back.”
Sep 20, 2018 · Rally“So we started the wall a year ago. We've done a lot. We've rebuilt a lot of sections of wall in San Diego and a lot of areas. We're starting a big, brand-new section. We spent $1.6 billion, then another $1.6 billion.”
Sep 18, 2018 · Interview“We have started the wall.”
Sep 7, 2018 · Remarks“You know that right, you know you have lawyers standing at the border. Saying repeat after me, read this statement.I have been abused. I need safety, it is for my personal health. Oh okay, congratulations. You've just…
Sep 7, 2018 · Remarks“We're building the wall, not only building it, we've already started it.”
Sep 7, 2018 · Press conference“Just so you understand, I've already started the wall. The wall has been started.”
Sep 7, 2018 · Interview“But I want people coming into the country through the merit system, not through a system where we have no idea who we're taking.”
Sep 7, 2018 · Remarks“And you know, with these lotteries that we have, we have lotteries from countries where people come in through a lottery system. Do you think that these countries are sending us their finest? I don't think so.”
Sep 6, 2018 · Rally“We've started the wall.”
Sep 6, 2018 · Interview“So we've started the wall.”
Sep 5, 2018 · Remarks“And we have started the wall.”
Sep 4, 2018 · Interview“You know, people don’t realize half the pictures were taken of separation were taken where, most of the pictures, that pictures in ’14 of kids separated from their parents. That was all Obama. People don’t say it but…
Sep 4, 2018 · Interview“You know, Obama had the same policy on separation … People don’t say it, but Obama had the same law that I did, and they separated parents from their children. I think you guys understand that.”
Sep 4, 2018 · Interview“We’ve already started the wall. We’ve gotten $3.2 billion for the wall. We’ve done a lot of work on the wall.”
Aug 31, 2018 · Remarks“We've already started building the wall.”
Aug 30, 2018 · Rally“[Democrats] don't want to build the wall here, although we've started, but it's not easy.”
Aug 30, 2018 · Interview“The wall’s happening. By the way, I’ve already started the wall....But just so you understand, I got $1.6 billion in spent. We have another $1.6 billion now. We’re building. We’re building actually 80 miles of the…
Aug 24, 2018 · Speech“Sherrod Brown voted for the deadly and terrible sanctuary cities.”
Aug 23, 2018 · Interview“We're building the wall. It's already started. We've spent $3.2 billion on it. We're asking for $5 billion for this year's funding. The wall is going up. A lot of people don't know it.”
Aug 23, 2018 · Video“The wall is being built. We've started it, but we also need the funding for this year's building of the wall.”
Aug 21, 2018 · Rally“If you want to protect our border and our border patrol, if you want to stop this craziness of sanctuary cities, where criminals are protected -- take a look at Chicago, how about the mayor of Chicago? It's like a war…
Aug 21, 2018 · Rally“And by the way, the wall right now, that wall is coming along. We're over $3 billion. It's moving along very nicely, very nicely. And if you think it's easy with these people, it's not easy.”
Aug 20, 2018 · Remarks“We will end the ridiculous policy of catch-and-release. Think about that. Just think about it. You catch somebody bad, you take their name, and you release them. And except for politics, the Democrats all know it’s…
Aug 20, 2018 · Remarks“To protect our nation from smuggling, trafficking, drugs, crime, the men and women of DHS are building the border wall as we sit, and the wall is getting longer, and taller, and stronger each and every day. We’ve…
Aug 20, 2018 · Remarks“Last year alone, sanctuary jurisdictions and local communities unleashed nearly 8,000 criminal aliens onto our streets.”
Aug 13, 2018 · Remarks“We've begun building the wall.”
Aug 4, 2018 · Rally“We're building that wall. We're building a wall, don't worry. We've already started. We've already started. We're building that wall. We've already started.”
Aug 4, 2018 · Rally“Visa lottery, lottery, let's pick somebody out. Oh, darling, I wonder who that might be. Oh, here he is. Oh, oh, he's convicted of five murders. Oh, I see. Well, let him run through our country.”
Aug 4, 2018 · Rally“And how about chain migration? How about that? Somebody comes in, he brings his mother, and his father, and his aunt and uncle, 15 times removed. He brings them all. … But this guy had 22 people come in with him -- 22…
Aug 2, 2018 · Rally“We're building it. So, we've started the wall, $1.6 billion.”
Aug 2, 2018 · Rally“We got to get rid of visa — how about that? — visa, visa lottery. You know what a lottery is? You pick it out of a hat. … 'Ladies and gentlemen, our first lottery winner.' You know, they think we’re playing, like, a…
Aug 2, 2018 · Rally“This is like for stupid people, catch and release. Somebody walks across the border, they put their foot on there, not even two feet, just one foot. And you might as well, “Welcome to the United States, we’ll never…
Aug 2, 2018 · Rally“So, this bad guy that ran over and killed eight people on the West Side Highway in New York City … And he came in through chain, and he has 22 relatives here that came in because he was here. He has his uncle and his…
Aug 2, 2018 · Rally“Remember when I said about a month ago I said, 'No, I don't want to' -- they want me to hire thousands of judges, thousands -- can you imagine the corruption that would take place, you're hiring thousands? You go into…
Aug 1, 2018 · Interview“How about chain migration? One person comes in and you end up with 32 people. The person that ran down 18 people on the West Side Highway, he's allowed to have -- and I think eight died. He has 22 members of his…
Aug 1, 2018 · Interview“And then you have the visa lottery. It's a lottery system where you pick people out of a lottery. Well, the countries aren't giving us their best people. They're giving us people that they don't want. So we're taking…
Aug 1, 2018 · Interview“And the other thing is the wall. We've started it. It's like pulling teeth, though, getting these guys to get it done is.”
Jul 31, 2018 · Rally“We’ve already started the wall. We got 1.6 billion dollars and we’ve started large portions of the wall and we’re going to need more and we’re going to get more.”
Jul 30, 2018 · Social post“We must have Border Security, get rid of Chain, Lottery, Catch & Release Sanctuary Cities - go to Merit based Immigration. Protect ICE and Law Enforcement and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!”
Jul 30, 2018 · Press conference“We have to end these horrible catch-and-release principles where you catch somebody, you take their name and you release them. You don't even know who they are.”
Jul 30, 2018 · Press conference“They want us to hire thousands of judges. The whole thing is ridiculous and we have to change our laws. And we do that through Congress.”
Jul 17, 2018 · Interview“We've already started the wall, $1.6 billion. Started in San Diego, California. It's almost completed in that area.”
Jul 5, 2018 · Rally“We are already building the wall. It started in California, in San Diego, $1.6 billion.”
Jul 5, 2018 · Rally“So we’re taking them [MS-13] out by the thousands. And if it weren’t for ICE, we wouldn’t be doing it.”
Jul 2, 2018 · Remarks“We have unbelievably bad border laws, immigration laws. The weakest in the world. Laughed at by everybody in the world. And Mexico has very strong immigration laws, so they can help us until we straighten out our…
Jun 30, 2018 · Social post“The Democrats are making a strong push to abolish ICE, one of the smartest, toughest and most spirited law enforcement groups of men and women that I have ever seen. I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of…
Jun 27, 2018 · Rally“We're going to get that wall built. We've already started it. $1.6 billion. We're getting the wall built.”
Jun 27, 2018 · Rally“And we're sending MS-13 out by the thousands. By the thousands. We're liberating towns in Long Island. We are sending MS-13 out.”
Jun 27, 2018 · Rally“And we want people to come into our country. But we want them to come into our country based on merit. Merit. Not picked out of a jar.”
Jun 26, 2018 · Remarks“We're spending $1.6 billion now, there's a plan for another $1.6 billion but I'd like to ask this room if we could increase it.”
Jun 26, 2018 · Remarks“Somebody touches our land, we now take them to a court, to a judge. They want us to choose 5,000 judges. How do you choose 5,000 judges?”
Jun 26, 2018 · Remarks“I think in light of what's happened with the drugs, with the human smuggling, with all of the problems we have to have the wall -- we have to have the wall.”
Jun 25, 2018 · Rally“They came to me three days ago. Sir, we'd like you to sign this order. What is the order? We need five thousand judges on the border. I said, "Judges?" What other country has judges? I said, "How many do we have now?"…
Jun 25, 2018 · Remarks“They came in to see me last week; they said, "We'd like to hire 5,000 more judges." Five thousand. You ever hear of thing like that? Judges. Well, we're appointing 145 judges here, and everyone goes through this…
Jun 25, 2018 · Rally“It's not build that wall anymore, it's continue building that wall, because we're building it. We're building it, we're fixing it miles and miles, we've got $1.6 billion, we're fixing the wall, we're building wall in…
Jun 25, 2018 · Social post“Hiring many thousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go - will always be dysfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into…
Jun 23, 2018 · Rally“You look at MS-13. We take them out of this country by the thousands. They're flowing, we take them out by the thousands.”
Jun 23, 2018 · Rally“We're going to have the wall. We've already started it. We've already started it. You know we've started it in San Diego. … We have $1.6 billion.”
Jun 23, 2018 · Interview“MS-13, horrible gangs, we're getting them out by the thousands but our job would be so much easier if we had what we need on border security, border safety.”
Jun 23, 2018 · Interview“And the all-time beauty is the lottery. We pick names out. So do you think the country is giving us their finest? … They're giving us some rough, tough people and we want merit.”
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“Where is the media outrage over the catch-and-release policies that allow deadly drugs to pour into our country?”
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“Where is the condemnation of the Democrat sanctuary cities that release violent criminals into our communities and then protect them?”
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“We want people in our country based on merit. Not based on a draw, where other countries put their absolute worst in a bin and they start drawing people.They don't put their good ones. They put their bad ones. And…
Jun 22, 2018 · Social post“They do have, though, very strong Immigration Laws.”
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“Sixty-three thousand [Americans have been killed by illegal aliens since 9/11]. And that number, they say, is very low because things aren't reported.”
Jun 22, 2018 · Social post“It’s shameful that dems and the media exploited this photo of a little girl to push their agenda. She was not separated from her mom. The separation here is from the facts. Dems should join POTUS and fix our broken…
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“In Texas alone, within the last seven years, more than a quarter million criminal aliens have been arrested and charged with over 600,000 criminal offenses.”
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“I always hear that, “Oh, no, the population is safer than the people that live in the country.” You’ve heard that, fellas. Right? You’ve heard that. I hear it so much. And I say, “Is that possible?” The answer is it’s…
Jun 22, 2018 · Remarks“According to a 2011 government report, the arrests attached to the criminal alien population included an estimated 25,000 people for homicide, 42,000 for robbery, nearly 70,000 for sex offenses, and nearly 15,000 for…
Jun 21, 2018 · Remarks“You catch them, and then you release them. Might as well save your time. Don't bother catching them. And this is what we're stuck with. They're the worst immigration laws in the history of the world. The whole world…
Jun 21, 2018 · Remarks“We started the wall. We have $1.6 billion.”
Jun 21, 2018 · Remarks“These alien minors were separated and sent all the way up here alone. But they really came up with coyotes. You know what a coyote is. Not good. These are not good people. They were sent up here with human traffickers…
Jun 21, 2018 · Remarks“Democrat and court-ordered loopholes prevent family detention and lead to family separation, no matter how you cut it. I signed a very good executive order yesterday, but that's only limited -- no matter how you cut…
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“[Mexico] has very powerful immigration laws. They could stop the immigration on the spot, but they choose not to do it.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Rally“We're not going to let [open borders] happen. And by the way, today, I signed an executive order: We're going to keep families together, but the border is going to be just as tough as it's been.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“We're going to need the wall. It has to be built. We got to stop the drugs from pouring in.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“We're doing it with compassion. And I signed an executive order keeping families together, because I think that's probably a very important thing to be doing. And I also think that it's the right thing to do.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“We want to solve this immigration problem, which is going on for 40 years, more. It's been going on forever. ”
Jun 20, 2018 · Rally“We need people to help, but we want them to come in through the merit system, not a system where we get MS-13 and everybody else that other countries don't want.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“We hire thousands of judges. No other country does this. Judges. ”
Jun 20, 2018 · Rally“We have liberated towns [from MS-13]. Liberated, like it was captured by a foreign country. We have liberated towns out in Long Island.MS-13 gangs, we have taken them out of our country by the thousands.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Rally“So, we've already started the wall. We got $1.6 billion. The wall has been started. San Diego and lots of different places.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“ICE is throwing -- we're throwing, by the thousands, MS-13. We're liberating towns on Long Island and other places. We're throwing [MS-13] out by the thousands. But we need laws that don't allow them to come back in.”
Jun 20, 2018 · Remarks“I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. It's a problem that's gone on for many years, as you know, through many administrations.”
Jun 19, 2018 · Remarks“You see what happens with MS-13, where your sons and daughters are attacked violently. … And we're allowing these people into our country? Not with me. We're taking them out by the thousands. We're taking them out by…
Jun 19, 2018 · Remarks“When we release the people they never come back to the judge anyway. They're gone. They're in your system. That's it. If they're good, that's great. And if they're bad, you'll have killings, you'll have murders…
Jun 19, 2018 · Remarks“Since last year, child smugglers -- who are very, very sophisticated -- they've learned the loopholes in this horrible, rotten system that the Democrats have to help us fix because we need the votes. We could have the…
Jun 19, 2018 · Remarks“As a result of Democrat-supported loopholes in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors from Central America who arrive unlawfully at the border cannot be detained together or removed together…
Jun 19, 2018 · Remarks“And remember, these countries that we give tremendous foreign aid to in many cases, they send these people up and they're not sending their finest.”
Jun 18, 2018 · Remarks“You take a look at the death and destruction that's been caused by people coming into this country, without going through a process.”
Jun 18, 2018 · Remarks“We could have -- child separation -- we're stuck with these horrible laws. They're horrible laws.”
Jun 16, 2018 · Remarks“The record is plain: Washington Democrats voted against Kate's Law, they voted against legislation to deport gang members, and they voted for Sanctuary Cities where these violent criminals hide. Democrats in Congress…
Jun 16, 2018 · Social post“Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change! This is why we need more Republicans elected in November. Democrats are good at only three…
Jun 15, 2018 · Press conference“We got to get rid of catch-and-release. You catch a criminal, you take his name, you release him, and he never shows up again. He goes into our society, and then we end up getting him in a different way, oftentimes…
Jun 15, 2018 · Social post“The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain…
Jun 15, 2018 · Interview“If you notice when I came over, they were all saying about separating the families, and that's a Democrat bill. That's Democrats wanting to do that, and they could solve it very easily by getting together.”
Jun 15, 2018 · Interview“ICE -- we're getting MS-13 out by the thousands. But we shouldn't have to be going into towns in Long Island and other places and getting them out. You know, it's almost like we're liberating towns. It's incredible.”
Jun 15, 2018 · Press conference“I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That's their law. ... You can't do it through an executive order.”
Jun 15, 2018 · Interview“Do you know what lottery is? That's when you pick names to come into the country. Well, when a country gives names, they're not giving us their finest. So we're picking people, it's not good. We have to end that.”
Jun 15, 2018 · Interview“Catch-and-release. We catch a criminal, a real criminal, a rough tough criminal, we take his name and then we release him. And we say, 'Please show up to court in a couple of months.' You know what the chances of…
Jun 9, 2018 · Press conference“We started building the wall, as you know. $1.6 billion -- and we're going to keep that going.”
Jun 6, 2018 · Remarks“And we got $1.6 billion -- we've already started the wall on the southern border. The wall has started. $1.6 billion.”
Jun 6, 2018 · Remarks“And the wall is going up. We have $1.6 billion being spent on phase one of the wall and we’ll get additional funding.”
Jun 5, 2018 · Social post“Separating families at the Border is the fault of bad legislation passed by the Democrats. Border Security laws should be changed but the Dems can’t get their act together! Started the Wall.”
May 29, 2018 · Rally“We're going to get the wall. We've already started doing it. ... We got $1.6 billion in the last approval.”
May 29, 2018 · Rally“We have a guy in New York a year ago -- he ran over and killed eight people, right? ... And he got here and he's got 22 people that came in -- his mother, his father, his grandmother, his uncle, his brother, his…
May 29, 2018 · Rally“Think of it, a lottery. You pick people. Now, let me ask you. So these countries that are sending people in -- do you think they are sending us their finest? Do you think they are sending us -- so we got the lottery.…
May 29, 2018 · Rally“So they wanted the wall. So I said, No, let's wait. And they said, 'Go ahead and build it, we got a good price.' So we started to build it. Then I had second thoughts because of the governor of California, who loves…
May 29, 2018 · Rally“MS-13 takes advantage of glaring loopholes in our immigration laws to infiltrate our country. That's what they do. Think of it. We're bringing them out by the thousands, but they come in. We're bringing them out by…
May 24, 2018 · Interview“We're bringing [MS-13] out by the thousands, as you know, we're setting records -- this is a record that I'm not even -- I don't even like talking about it because it's so ridiculous.”
May 24, 2018 · Interview“We have to get rid of catch-and-release. You catch them. Even if you know they're a criminal. You catch them, you have to release them, by law, you have to release them. And then they go into society and they don't…
May 24, 2018 · Interview“They take people from a lottery, where you can imagine these countries are not putting their finest in that lottery, so I don't like lottery. Chain migration is a disaster.”
May 24, 2018 · Interview“As you know we started the wall.”
May 23, 2018 · Remarks“I do want to say, and I have to pay great tribute to ICE and Border Patrol. But ICE came in and they are doing a job. We are taking them [MS-13] out by the thousands. ... We're taking them out by the thousands, by the…
May 21, 2018 · Remarks“We've started the wall. We have $1.6 billion for the wall.”
May 21, 2018 · Remarks“We're also working with Congress to close the crippling loopholes and federal or especially, to disgraceful practice of catch and release. That's where you'll catch somebody, talk to him, sign them, and then you have…
May 21, 2018 · Remarks“We need the wall for protection of our country also for keeping the drugs out. Very effective. Probably the most effective thing.”
May 16, 2018 · Remarks“We're moving them out of this country by the thousands. MS-13, we're grabbing them by the thousands and we're getting them out.”
May 16, 2018 · Remarks“We have the worst laws anywhere in the world for illegal immigration. There's no place in the world that has laws like we do. Catch and release, think of it. We catch somebody, we find out they're criminals. We end up…
May 16, 2018 · Remarks“Now we have started the wall. We're spending $1.6 billion between fixing and starting. You know Melissa what's been going on, we've been getting it up. We have a lot of folks in California, they don't talk about it…
May 15, 2018 · Remarks“We are getting [MS-13] out of our country by the thousands.”
May 10, 2018 · Rally“We're going to build the wall. You know, we have already started. We got $1.6 billion.”
May 5, 2018 · Remarks“You've seen catch and release. You catch them, and then you release them. Okay? That's what it is. Catch -- this is a Democrat rule. ... This is a Democrat rule. Catch-and-release. You catch them; you release them.”
May 5, 2018 · Remarks“Can you imagine a lottery system? Can you imagine it? We take people based out of a lottery. A lottery. Do you think the country is putting their finest in the lottery? I don't think so.”
May 4, 2018 · Speech“We are going to have truly strong-and we're going to take people into our country, but they're going to come in based on merit, not based on picking somebody out of a bin.”
Apr 30, 2018 · Press conference“Just look at our southern border and our weak and obsolete immigration laws. They are obsolete and they are weak and they are pathetic. And there's no country in the world that has laws like we do.....Our immigration…
Apr 28, 2018 · Rally“That wall has started. We are $1.6 billion.”
Apr 19, 2018 · Social post“Thank you San Diego County for defending the rule of law and supporting our lawsuit against California's illegal and unconstitutional 'Sanctuary' policies. California's dangerous policies release violent criminals…
Apr 19, 2018 · Social post“Sanctuary Cities released at least 142 Gang Members across the United States, making it easy for them to commit all forms of violent crimes where none would have existed. We are doing a great job of law enforcement…
Apr 19, 2018 · Remarks“Looking at what’s happening in California with sanctuary cities where the people are really going the opposite way. They don’t want sanctuary cities. And there’s a little bit of a revolution going on in California.”
Apr 17, 2018 · Social post“Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not looking for safety and security along their very porous Border. He cannot come to terms for the National Guard to patrol and protect the Border. The high crime rate will…
Apr 13, 2018 · Social post“Tremendous pressure is building, like never before, for the Border Wall and an end to crime cradling Sanctuary Cities. Started the Wall in San Diego, where the people were pushing really hard to get it. They will soon…
Apr 9, 2018 · Remarks“We need a wall. Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, we need a wall. And it will stop your drug flow. It will knock the hell out of the drug flow.”
Apr 5, 2018 · Speech“We’re going to have the wall. We’ve already started building it. We have a billion-six [$1.6 billion]. We’ve started building it and fixing miles and miles of wall that’s already up — and fence.”
Apr 5, 2018 · Speech“We're going to have the wall. We've already started building it. We have a billion six. We've started building it.”
Apr 5, 2018 · Speech“We had somebody on the West Side Highway, which I know very well, in Manhattan, he ran over — I think he killed about eight people. … And came in through chain migration. Or he might have also come in through a…
Apr 5, 2018 · Speech“If you come into Canada, it’s got to be based on merit. With us, it’s a lottery system — pick them out — a lottery system. You can imagine what those countries put into the system. They’re not putting their good ones.”
Apr 4, 2018 · Social post“Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong. Congress must change these Obama era, and other, laws NOW!”
Apr 3, 2018 · Remarks“We’ve started building the wall.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Remarks“We’re fixing and building brand-new walls in certain areas. And we’re doing a lot of work on walls. We have $1.6 billion, and we’re starting brand-new sections of walls.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Press conference“We need the wall. We’ve started building the wall.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Press conference“We don’t have laws. We have catch-and-release.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Remarks“So I told Mexico — and I respect what they did — I said, look, your laws are very powerful; your laws are very strong. We have very bad laws for our border.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Remarks“President Obama made changes that basically created no border. It’s called catch-and-release.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Remarks“Plus, if you notice, they’re trying to hire thousands of judges so every person that walks across — and they’re taught to say the right thing — they walk across, and then they go and they’re supposed to go to court.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Remarks“If you look at what’s happening in California, they’re having revolts out there because there are a lot of areas — Orange County and others — they don’t want to have sanctuary cities, which are guarding criminals.”
Apr 3, 2018 · Press conference“Congress will get their act together and get in and create some very powerful laws, like Mexico has, and like Canada has, and like almost all countries have.”
Apr 2, 2018 · Social post“As ridiculous as it sounds, the laws of our country do not easily allow us to send those crossing our Southern Border back where they came from. A whole big wasted procedure must take place. Mexico & Canada have tough…
Apr 2, 2018 · Social post“...Congress must immediately pass Border Legislation, use Nuclear Option if necessary, to stop the massive inflow of Drugs and People. Border Patrol Agents (and ICE) are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws don’t allow them…
Apr 1, 2018 · Social post“Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear…
Mar 29, 2018 · Speech“You saw those beautiful pictures. … We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it. We started. We started. We have $1.6 billion, and we’ve already started.”
Mar 29, 2018 · Speech“We started building our wall. … We have $1.6 billion, and we’ve already started. You saw the pictures yesterday. I said, ‘What a thing of beauty.’ ”
Mar 28, 2018 · Social post“My Administration stands in solidarity with the brave citizens in Orange County defending their rights against California's illegal and unconstitutional Sanctuary policies. California's Sanctuary laws....release known…
Mar 28, 2018 · Social post“Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL!”
Mar 23, 2018 · Remarks“So, we have $1.6 billion for the wall. That will start immediately. This is a short-term funding, but it’s immediate. It starts immediately.”
Mar 22, 2018 · Remarks“We have $1.6 billion toward the wall, and fixing up bad walls that are already up and, you know, building them new and rebuilding them.”
Mar 13, 2018 · Remarks“That is why my administration is confronting sanctuary city policies that nullify federal law, violate our Constitution, and threaten the safety and security of our nation. They shield criminals. We can't do that.”
Mar 13, 2018 · Social post“If we don’t have a wall system, we’re not going to have a country. Congress must fund the BORDER WALL & prohibit grants to sanctuary jurisdictions that threaten the security of our country & the people of our country.…
Mar 13, 2018 · Social post“California’s sanctuary policies are illegal and unconstitutional and put the safety and security of our entire nation at risk. Thousands of dangerous & violent criminal aliens are released as a result of sanctuary…
Mar 10, 2018 · Rally“Last week, the mayor of Oakland warned criminal aliens of a coming ICE enforcement action — giving them time to scatter and hide from authorities. The mayor’s conduct directly threatened the safety of federal…
Mar 8, 2018 · Remarks“[States] should give up on the sanctuary cities. It harbors horrible criminals.”
Mar 8, 2018 · Remarks“What the mayor of Oakland did the other day was a disgrace, where they had close to a thousand people ready to be gotten, ready to be taken off the streets. Many of them, they say 85 percent of them were criminals…
Mar 8, 2018 · Remarks“We've taken thousands of [MS-13] out of circulation. Got them out, and we've got them out of the country, or they're in jail. And we're tackling this deadly scourge like nobody's ever tackled it before.”
Feb 24, 2018 · Interview“We've gotten thousands of them -- literally thousands, you know that out of the country and put them in jail and out of the country.”
Feb 24, 2018 · Interview“We need the wall. We need border security, and we have to stop MS-13 and a lot of really bad people, and drugs from pouring into our country.”
Feb 24, 2018 · Interview“We need something to do with chain migration and something to do with Visa lottery. I mean we actually have lottery systems where you go to countries and they do lotteries for who comes into the United States”
Feb 24, 2018 · Interview“Now, you know they are not going to have their best people in the lottery, because they're not going to put their best people in a lottery. They don't want to have their good people to leave...We want people based on…
Feb 23, 2018 · Speech“Think of the lottery. You have a country, they put names in. You think they're giving us their good people? Not too many of you people are going to be in a lottery.So we pick out people, then they turn out to be…
Feb 23, 2018 · Speech“They say 22 people came in with him -- in other words, an aunt, an uncle, a grandfather, a mother, a father, whoever came in. But a lot of people came in. That's chain migration.”
Feb 22, 2018 · Remarks“So they [MS-13] cut them up with knives. They don't use guns; they use knives, because they want it to be a long, painful death to people that had no idea this was coming. And we're getting them out by the thousands…
Feb 13, 2018 · Remarks“But we want securing the border and a wall, ending chain migration, and canceling the visa lottery. ... Anybody in favor of the lottery, where you pick it out and you say, 'Good, we have a new United States citizen'?…
Feb 6, 2018 · Remarks“This is after, actually, removing thousands of them [MS-13] out — some into the prisons — but literally thousands of people are removed out. But they come back as fast as we take them out. Different ones — not even…
Feb 5, 2018 · Speech“Human traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide-open areas between our ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the United States and to sell them into prostitution and…
Feb 1, 2018 · Remarks“We want people coming into our country based on merit and based on the fact that they are going to love our country, and they respect our people and our country. We don’t want visa lottery. Pick a lottery ticket. Pick…
Jan 30, 2018 · Speech“The third pillar ends the visa lottery — a program that randomly hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit or the safety of our people.”
Jan 30, 2018 · Speech“In recent weeks, two terrorist attacks in New York were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration. In the age of terrorism, these programs present risks we can no longer afford.”
Jan 26, 2018 · Interview“We need a wall, we need the drugs to stop flowing in. They are coming in like -- well, they're coming in less now than they were because we have a very strong -- we have great Border Patrol agents, great ICE -- we…
Jan 26, 2018 · Interview“I don't want [MS-13] -- we are taking them out by the thousands. By the thousands.”
Jan 24, 2018 · Remarks“Sanctuary cities are the best friend of gangs and cartels, like MS-13. You know that.”
Jan 18, 2018 · Social post“We need the Wall for the safety and security of our country. We need the Wall to help stop the massive inflow of drugs from Mexico, now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world. If there is no Wall…
Jan 17, 2018 · Social post“New report from DOJ & DHS shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign-born.”
Jan 16, 2018 · Social post“We must have Security at our VERY DANGEROUS SOUTHERN BORDER, and we must have a great WALL to help protect us, and to help stop the massive inflow of drugs pouring into our country!”
Jan 15, 2018 · Social post“I don't think the Democrats want to make a deal. They talk about DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], but they don't want to help. We are ready, willing and able to make a deal but they don't want to. They…
Jan 14, 2018 · Remarks“They don't want security at the border. We have people pouring in. They don’t want security at the border, and they don’t want to stop drugs. And they want to take money away from our military, which we cannot do.”
Jan 11, 2018 · Interview“They didn't want him [terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov] so they sent him through the lottery, you know, congratulations United States.”
Jan 11, 2018 · Social post“The Democrats seem intent on having people and drugs pour into our country from the Southern Border, risking thousands of lives in the process. It is my duty to protect the lives and safety of all Americans. We must…
Jan 11, 2018 · Interview“So the lottery has to end, chain migration -- he brought in they say 22 people through the chain. So we have 22 of his relatives, why?”
Jan 10, 2018 · Press conference“We need the wall for security. We need the wall for safety. We need the wall for stopping the drugs from pouring in.”
Jan 10, 2018 · Remarks“But we do need the wall, and we need more border security anyway.”
Jan 9, 2018 · Remarks“We have tremendous numbers of people and drugs pouring into our country. So in order to secure [the border] we need a wall.”
Jan 9, 2018 · Remarks“We can build the wall in one year and we can build it for much less money than what they're talking about.”
Jan 9, 2018 · Remarks“Twenty-two to twenty-four people came in through him. He's a killer. He's a guy who ran over eight -- many people -- eight died; ten to twelve are really badly injured. So I really think that a lot of people are going…
Jan 9, 2018 · Remarks“The countries come in and they put names in a hopper and they're not giving you their best names, common sense means they're not giving you the best names, they giving you people that they don't want and then we take…
Jan 6, 2018 · Remarks“We have to get rid of the Visa lottery. You know, the lottery is a disaster. They get you people, in fact, as you know, the person on the Westside Highway that killed eight people and so badly injured legs and arms…
Jan 6, 2018 · Remarks“The wall is gone to happen or we are not going to have DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]...We all want DACA to happen, but we also want great security for our country. So important. We want to stop the…
Jan 6, 2018 · Remarks“One of the things we are discussing and discussing very powerfully is drugs pouring into this country and how to stop it. Because it’s at a point — over the last number of years, it’s never been like this.”
Jan 4, 2018 · Remarks“We're going to have a wall -- remember that -- we're going to have a wall to keep out deadly drug dealers, dangerous traffickers, and violent criminal cartels.”
Jan 4, 2018 · Remarks“The lottery system is a disaster. Tom and I talk about it all the time. They put down their probably worst people -- who knows. But they're not looking to get rid of their best people, so they put their worst people…
Dec 28, 2017 · Interview“We see the drugs pouring into the country, we need the wall.”
Dec 28, 2017 · Interview“They have a lottery in these countries. They take the worst people in the country, they put ‘em into the lottery, then they have a handful of bad, worse ones, and they put them out. ‘Oh, these are the people the…
Dec 20, 2017 · Remarks“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 worst people into the lottery.”
Dec 15, 2017 · Remarks“You think the country's giving us their best people? No. What kind of a system is that? They come in by a lottery. They give us their worst people. They put them in a bin, but in his hand, when he's picking them, is…
Dec 8, 2017 · Remarks“We're going to get the wall. And we need it. We need it for the drug flow; we need it for people coming into our country.”
Dec 8, 2017 · Rally“So what they do, I would say, but more than just saying, they take their worst and they put them in the bin. And then when they pick the lottery, they have the real worst in their hands, oh, here we go. And we end up…
Dec 6, 2017 · Remarks“They want to have illegal immigrants pouring into our country, bringing with them crime, tremendous amounts of crime.”
Nov 28, 2017 · Remarks“If [a government shutdown] happens, it's going to be over illegals pouring into the country, crime pouring into the country, no border wall — which everybody wants.”
Nov 5, 2017 · Interview“I guarantee you these countries they don't put their finest in the lottery system. They put people probably in many cases that they don't want.”
Nov 2, 2017 · Remarks“This program grants visas not on a basis of merit, but simply because applicants are randomly selected in an annual lottery. And the people put in that lottery are not that country's finest.”
Nov 2, 2017 · Interview“Just so you understand, the countries aren't putting their finest in there. They're not putting their best and their greatest and their finest in there.”
Nov 2, 2017 · Interview“Drugs are pouring into our country. A lot of them are coming in through the southern border and the wall will be a tremendous tool to help facilitate the ending of the drugs coming in.”
Nov 1, 2017 · Remarks“This man that came in, or whatever you want to call him, brought in, with him, other people. And he was a point – he was the point of contact, the primary point of contact for — and this is preliminarily — 23 people…
Nov 1, 2017 · Social post“The terrorist came into our country through what is called the 'Diversity Visa Lottery Program,' a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.”
Oct 26, 2017 · Speech“An astonishing 90 percent of the heroin in America comes from south of the border, where we will be building a wall which will greatly help in this problem. It will have a great impact.”
Oct 25, 2017 · Interview“The drugs pouring into the country have gotten -- and I tell you what, we’ve made a big impact. But still, we need the wall. You know, part of the reason we need the wall is for drugs.”
Oct 25, 2017 · Remarks“I would love to do a DACA deal, but we have to get something very substantial for it, including the wall, including security, including a strong border. We have to be able to stop drugs from pouring into our nation.”
Oct 16, 2017 · Remarks“We have drugs pouring through on the southern border; they're literally pouring through.”
Oct 16, 2017 · Press conference“Drugs are pouring across our border. We're stopping it, but we need a wall to really stop it.”
Oct 11, 2017 · Interview“Right now we've built five prototypes. They are really looking good and our country needs it. Not only for people but for the drugs that are pouring into our country. We have drugs that are pouring into our country.”
Sep 22, 2017 · Rally“You know, it has to be a see-through wall. ... It's so bad, it's going to stop drugs, it's going to stop a lot of bad things because the drug epidemic in this country is out of control, we're going to stop it. We're…
Sep 22, 2017 · Rally“We have Tom Cotton, we have David Perdue, two great senators, and they're working on it. The RAISE Act would keep new immigrants from going on welfare for five years. Isn't that nice? They don't walk over and say I'm…
Sep 22, 2017 · Rally“Luther's with us on cracking down on dangerous sanctuary cities that release criminal aliens into our communities. What's that all about?”
Sep 5, 2017 · Statement or ad“The temporary implementation of DACA by the Obama Administration, after Congress repeatedly rejected this amnesty-first approach, also helped spur a humanitarian crisis — the massive surge of unaccompanied minors from…
Aug 22, 2017 · Rally“Years of uncontrolled immigration have placed enormous pressure on the jobs and wages of working families, and they've put great burdens on local schools and hospitals.”
Aug 4, 2017 · Speech“We announced a historic immigration bill to create a merit-based Green Card system that ends the abuse of our welfare system, stops chain migration, and protects our workers and our economy. As an example, you cannot…
Aug 3, 2017 · Rally“Our proposal prevents new immigrants from going on welfare for at least five years. So you don't come in and go on welfare.”
Aug 3, 2017 · Speech“For many years America has issued most of its green cards to lower skilled immigrants and people that had no hope of getting a job, undermining blue collar workers and wages and costing taxpayers billions and billions…
Aug 2, 2017 · Press conference“The RAISE Act prevents new migrants and new immigrants from collecting welfare … They’re not going to come in and just immediately go and collect welfare. That doesn’t happen under the RAISE Act. They can’t do that.”
Aug 2, 2017 · Remarks“For decades, the United States was operated and has operated a very low-skill immigration system. … This policy has placed substantial pressure on American workers, taxpayers and community resources. Among those hit…
Jul 28, 2017 · Remarks“You know, the border’s down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down, it went up. But if it went down 1 percent, there was like this was a great thing. Down 78 percent.”
Jul 25, 2017 · Rally“We don't want people that come into our country and immediately go on welfare and stay there for the rest of their lives.”
May 13, 2017 · Interview“Under Obama, they were just pouring in. So, MS-13, we have thousands of them in this country. They are going very, very fast.”
Apr 26, 2017 · Interview“Sanctuary cities have been very, very dangerous, very, very bad.”
Mar 22, 2017 · Interview“Sweden. I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems. … A day later they had a horrible, horrible riot in Sweden, and you saw what happened.”
Mar 6, 2017 · Statement or ad“The Attorney General has reported to me that more than 300 persons who entered the United States as refugees are currently the subjects of counterterrorism investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Feb 28, 2017 · Speech“According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America’s taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.”
Feb 16, 2017 · Press conference“We've ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens, and we have ordered an end to the policy of catch and release on the border. ... We are saving…
Feb 5, 2017 · Interview“You had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers and all we did was vet those people very, very carefully. ... It was 109 people.”
Feb 5, 2017 · Interview“I'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. They breed crime. There's a lot of problems.”
Jan 30, 2017 · Social post“Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage,..... protesters and the tears of Senator Schumer. Secretary Kelly said that all is…
Jan 29, 2017 · Statement or ad“My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.”