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“Border” said in 57 of 109 transcripts, 298 times.
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May 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…want that. They don't want to have that anymore, whether it's the border, where people pour into our country without being even checked or looked…
…percent closed. Nobody thought that was possible. We had a very successful border the first time. I won the election the first time, in 2016…
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…to this country is legendary. Allowing 21 million people through an open border, where anybody could walk into the United States of America, is something…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…day I took office, we inherited a colossal invasion on our southern border—an invasion like you'd never want to see here. Nobody should ever…
…same time last year. And last month, we had, in this massive border, three people that got in. That's quite a difference. And we have…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…It comes from China. It's amazing. And it comes through our southern border. It comes through our northern border too. It comes through Canada and…
May 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…it all up. He—what he did to this country, between the border and between all of the other problems—the wars, everything—what he…
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…the Indo-Pacific; help stop the flood of Chinese fentanyl across our borders, which we have to do—we lost, I believe, 300,000 people…
…four years of misery, and you look at what's coming through the border and the job of getting murderers out of our country. So many…
May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…millions, illegally, into our country. They just flowed in through an open border policy that was insane. And what we've done is, we've offered—you…
…in this country. Illegal immigrants that came in illegally through an open border policy, which is insane. We talk about common sense. That's not common…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…the election. We've turned the page on endless wars, crippling debt, open borders, ruinous inflation, and the lack of respect for our country and for…
…In a matter of weeks, we've achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. And you've seen it, hundreds of thousands of people…
…media. They say you have to have that; you need strong, strong borders; and you need really free, fair, clean elections. You need those things…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…poorly, as you know. Millions and millions of people pouring into our borders from—from jails and mental institutions and gang members. It was terrible…
…is here or Tom Homan—but yesterday we had the lowest, safest border in history: 99.999. In other words, three people got in. Three…
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…administration. It was an economic disaster. It was a disaster at the border like nobody had ever seen before. And you probably see, we've closed…
…and the plants, having to do with many other things, like secure borders and all of the many, many things. I could go down and…
…But I appreciate it. We have achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings in U.S. history, and we're at a level that nobody thought…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 20 times
…when you think about it. We're for common sense. We like strong borders. We like good education. We like low interest rates. We like being…
…bit. After years of leaders who sent your money to defend the borders of distant foreign nations—that's what we did: We'd fight for other…
…not for ourself—you finally have a president who is defending our borders and our Nation. Right, Dr. Oz? Dr. Oz. After decades of politicians…
Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…was so bad. It was so bad. What they've done to the borders, what they've done all over the place. And it's really an honor…
Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…near that number. Hi. Oh, it's amazing what they've done on the border. It's—thank you for the question, because honestly, it's one of the…
…people to come in, but we have nobody coming in through the border, virtually. That—we were having hundreds of thousands of people a month…
…stopped—everybody admits, even the radical left: We have got the strongest border we've ever had, even stronger than what I had it for 4…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…that are incredible. But probably the biggest reason was because of the border and because of illegal immigration, and the people of this country want…
…you couldn't—look, what this man was thinking when they allowed open borders and people to come in—if you look at Venezuela, their crime…
…that, and we're doing it in record fashion. We have the safest border, the most secure border we've ever had. See the Declaration of Independence…
Apr 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…history of our country: November 5. We're restoring our prosperity, securing our borders. We're rebuilding the U.S. military. We've—I did it once. Now I'm…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…most unbelievable job as somebody that's watching over our country at the border—— ——and with Tom Homan and your whole staff of tremendous people. So…
…that election. Look what happened to our country because of it: open borders, millions of people coming into our country. Russia and Ukraine, that would…
…those boxes. We got to have safe elections. We have to have borders. Ideally, we have to have a free press, which we don't have…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…of all, in a certain way, is what they did at the border. We had people pouring into our country by the millions. Many of…
…have been done long ago, just like Biden should have stopped the border long ago. I mean, he allowed 21 million people-plus into our…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times
…their policy—the Democrats—is horrible. It's horrible. Think of it. Open borders. Just—all of the horrible, stupid things they have. You don't have…
…All of these things—tariffs, the men in women's sports—everything—the borders, strong borders. We have the strongest border we've ever had. Today it…
…lost since NAFTA, when 21 million illegal aliens were brought across our borders—think of that—many of whom were violent criminals, murderers, drug lords…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…it was serious damage in so many other ways—not only the border, where people came rushing into our country from prisons and jails and…
…And this is what they allowed into our country with their open border policy of lunacy. And we're taking care of that, just like we're…
…up. And I knew that when I heard it was an open-border policy. I said, "If you do that, every country is going to…
Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…millions and millions of people to pour into our country with open borders, where the—it's so sad to see, even now. And I see…
…everybody—Homeland Security. Thank everybody. Appreciate it. And we now have a border that's the best border that we've ever had—even better than it…
…we had records then. We had the—we had the best, safest border. Four years ago, we the best border there ever was. And now…
Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…of law enforcement—and I think we have to include ICE and Border Patrol. You know, Paul with Border Patrol—the whole group from Border…
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country? Open borders. People from all over the world. Not South America. South America, but…
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…playing in women's sports. They have transgender for everyone. They have open borders. They have all of their crazy policies that are, I think, 95…
…Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable—have open borders where millions of people poured into our country, totally unvetted and totally…
…plants—and they were going to sell the cars right across the border. We wouldn't have the jobs, we wouldn't have the profits, we wouldn't…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times
…sad. What they've done in 4 years to our country with the borders; with Afghanistan, the embarrassing—most embarrassing period of time; allowing the Russian…
…big factor. We have to have honest elections, we have to have borders, and we have to have courts and law that's fair. Well, we're…
…true, but it was close. And perhaps most importantly, we're securing our border and repelling the invasion of America. We have—you see the numbers…
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…Canada should honestly become our 51st State. We wouldn't have a northern border problem. We wouldn't have a tariff problem. They don't have much—they…
…great as our cherished 51st State. You wouldn't have to worry about borders. You wouldn't have to worry about anything. And by the way, Canada…
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…don't want to go back and forth and around and through the borders and across Mexico border and Canada border and all over. They want…
…They're very happy about what's happening. They won't have to go across borders. And you see the zigzag, and you have a fender made in…
…We shouldn't have 21 million people pouring into our country through open borders, many of whom are criminals, very bad criminals, including murderers, thousands of…
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…had so many other things to do. We had to fix the border, which we did. We had to fix our military. We rebuilt our…
…shouldn't have to be spending anything on that. We had the safest border ever. Now we have, actually, as you saw—the numbers just came…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times
…the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to repel the…
…our country. And what a job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were, by far, the lowest ever recorded—ever. They…
…child predators who were allowed to enter our country under the open-border policy of these people—the Democrats, the Biden administration—the open border…
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…more than us, because, as you know, that's right there. That's the border. This country really was like the fence on the border. It was…
Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we didn't have wars. We didn't have inflation. We had a strong border. We had everything going good. And then Biden got in, and he's…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times
…corrupt special interest who drained our wealth, attacked our liberties, obliterated our borders, and sucked our country dry. Not any longer. But, on November 5…
…go and vote for. They loved men playing in women's sports, open borders, little things like that. But don't tell them. Don't tell them. Keep…
…Americans. We won all of the cities and towns along the Texas border. Whereas, before I ran, we won none. We never used to win…
Feb 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Americans. We're going to be fighting for all Americans. We've secured our border, and we're stopping the invasion of our country. You know, our border…
…dealers. They had everybody dropping in, and we had this ridiculous open border policy. They'd drop in. And I'll tell you, the people that were…
…in terms of the drugs and everything else. And we have the border shut down. We allow people to come in. We want people to…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…Biden allowed into our country with the ridiculous and very dangerous open-borders policy. They came from all over the world. They came from prisons…
…of common sense. We're a party of common sense. We want strong borders. We don't want men playing in women's sports. We don't want to…
…of Mexico, because I complain constantly about people pouring in. Now our border is the strongest border we've ever had. We've gone from the worst…
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…Mexico and then let them come through with this totally ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration. So millions of people have come in…
…large numbers through Canada. In fact, when we closed up the one border, they came in through the other border. So Canada was—is not…
…that we accepted this. It's hard to believe that we allowed open borders, and we're taking in, you know, hundreds of thousands and millions of…
Feb 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…We don't have any money," because they've given it away on the border. But you have nothing. What they did to North Carolina is a…
Feb 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…get a kickback. So, that's what I got elected for—that and borders and military and a lot of things, but this is a big…
…It's his fault. He allowed this country—what he did on our border—what he did on our border is almost not as bad as…
Feb 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…know, it's—to me, it's all common sense. Who wants an open border where— where prisons are dumped into our country, where prisoners are let…
Feb 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…American people with, you know, men participating in women's sports, with open borders, with transgender for everybody, for—all the things that they're doing is…
…you know, we just set records for closure. We have the strongest border we've had in many years—since my term, but even—maybe even…
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…whatever reason, the Congo is prime territory to come into our southern border. They get them up to the border, and they let them in…
…hope they don't learn, because—you know, they're still with the open borders. "We want open borders." Open borders are never going to sell. Men…
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…sports. No longer. It's over. But we're going to be securing our borders, defending our freedoms, and restoring the principle of meritocracy—merit. We're a…
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…to unify. There's big division. I mean, some people want an open border and some people want a closed border. We want it closed, and…
Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…A great friend of mine, and he's really helped us at the border, done a great job—of Texas, Greg Abbott. Thank you, Greg. Jim…
…And it's okay, because as long as they do this—and open borders and all of the other things they talk about—transgender everything. All…
…not having to do with this subject, but just as ridiculous. Open borders, where people are allowed to pour in from all over the world…
Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…with Canada. But they've agreed to be very, very strong on the border, stronger than they ever were, by far, by a factor of about…
…because we've had numbers like you've never seen before. I mean, the border is now closed—really closed. And with that being said, we're letting…
…and we want good people to come into our country, but the border is closed. I talked about that too. You know, both sides mean…
Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…soldiers permanently—like, forever—10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. They…
…very well, in the sense that they're very strong now on the border. They're going to put soldiers there. So—actually, their—best military soldiers…
…wonderful woman, but she did agree to 10,000 soldiers on the border. I would say that's a lot. Wouldn't you say that's pretty good…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…billion deficit, and we have a lot of people coming into the border. And now we've largely stopped that, but we've stopped that ourselves at…
…I got elected for a lot of reasons. Number one was the border. Number two was inflation, because I had almost no inflation, and yet…
Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…people. But we're going to send more. We're going to give the Border Patrol some help. Although, now, if you look, they've taken in the…
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 21 times
…prison gang known as Tren de Aragua. He trespassed across our southern border in 2022 and was apprehended by Border Patrol, but under the cruel…
…lady. We're joined today by many great supporters of our new strong border policies—and they are indeed strong—including Vice President Vance. Thank you…
…alien gang members released into the United States by Joe Biden's open-border stupid policies. And thank you very much, Alexis. I want to thank…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times
…have—nobody knows what we have. So many people came across the border. Nobody has any idea. I used to say, like, 325, but we…
…I declared a national emergency to stop the invasion of our southern border. We're going to stop that invasion. We've already done it. And today…
…deporting—we're deporting 100 percent of all new trespassers apprehended at the border. And nobody is coming in—and nobody is coming now because they…
Jan 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…going to go up. Put more money in your pocket, secure our borders, restore law and order to our cities, and we're going to make…
…done to the—what they've done to this country, especially the open borders, where they have—think of it—21 million people came in. Many…
…either terminate all of them, or maybe we'll move them to the border. I think we're going to move them to the border. Well, they're…
Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we make the same products right on the other side of the border. It's sort of crazy. So we've just allowed that—you know, bad…