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“Border” said in 197 of 427 transcripts, 873 times.
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Mar 17, 2025 Other 1 time
…much like what I'm witnessing in other places, where you have open borders, where you have men playing in women's sports. It's all the same…
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 13, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…did to this country, letting 21 million people flow through an open border—many of those people were hard criminals from prisons and jails, from…
Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…members, gang leaders, drug dealers pouring into our country with the open borders. I am so angry at the last 4 years, at what they've…
Mar 11, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…was very unfair. They'd build in Mexico and sell them across the border with no tax, no nothing. They'd take away our jobs. They'd close…
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 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…incredible—and Kristi. They've done a great job in terms of the border. But the drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds of…
…comes through Canada. And as Mexico gets stronger, in terms of the border, it goes up to Canada, and a lot of drugs are coming…
…have never been here, that the Biden administration, with their stupid open borders, should have never allowed. They came in from prisons and jails and…
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…Thank you very much. Great job. In just over 1 month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before…
…I got elected based on taxes and based on many things, the border, but also based on balancing budgets and getting our country back into…
…look at that very strongly. But we're also having tremendous support from Border Patrol, from ICE. The ICE agents have been unbelievable. Border Patrol— their…
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 24, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…know what else we didn't have? Millions of people pouring through our borders, many of them criminals released from other nations and put right into…
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 21, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…all over the world be allowed to empty jails into an open border. They opened—they—emptied jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum—gang…
…disaster that we inherited. And we inherited a lot of them, the border being, I think— actually, I think it's the most difficult one of…
…So, on day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border to stop the invasion of our country, because we were being invaded…
Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…in there, and then you just go. Because there's no way—open borders with prisoners coming in. Jails. The worst—some of the worst murderers…
…go and say, "I think it's a brilliant idea to have open borders, to allow prisons and mental institution people to pour in from all…
…accomplishment. On day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border. I sent our military to the border to secure the sovereign territory…
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 14, 2025 Interview 2 times
…damage they did to this country, in terms of, let's say, open borders—you know, there's so many things, but open borders, where millions of…
Feb 13, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…And I look at India, I do see the skirmishes on the border, which are quite vicious, and I guess they continue to go on…
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 Meeting 1 time
…mean, I've been saying that with Mexico, having to do with the border and— and all of the things, and you saw what happened—10…
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…
Feb 2, 2025 Other 1 time
…have among the lowest numbers we've ever had of people crossing our border—the lowest numbers since my administration. No, it's only South Africa. Terrible…
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…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…document—because it proved that I was totally innocent. Yes. Oh, southern border? When you say "southern border"—when I said "10,000 troops," I…
…000 troops to the Capitol before January 6. Making sure that the border is safe and secure and that criminals don't come into our country…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…country, but in particular, with our high-inflation economy and at our border. Because of these ruinous policies, total Government spending this year is $1…
…I'm also taking swift action to stop the invasion at our southern border. They allowed people to come in at levels that nobody has ever…
…declared to do—and very, very importantly—a national emergency on our border; immediately halted all entry of illegal border crossers, of which there were…
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a sweeping slate of Executive orders to stop the invasion of our borders. I launched a government-wide effort to defeat inflation and bring down…
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…prisoners and mental institution patients into our country with a stupid open border. As you know, the border was closed at exactly 1:05 in…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…worst. Anybody that would allow millions of people to pour through our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, gang members to be taken…
…they took their criminals and gave them to us through an open-border policy of the previous administration. All over the world, they're emptying their…
…those 88,000—let's see if they'd like to work on the border, because that's where we want them, really, on the— . So we're going…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…were at 56 percent. And we were winning—we won the Texas border that had never been won. As the Governor said—he's doing a…
…work? I don't believe it works." And I went to watch. The Border Patrol gave a display. We had actually two sets of climbers: the…
…to put it up. And that's when I realized they wanted open borders, and that's when I realized that people are going to come pouring…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…a Government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people…
…common sense. First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the…
…of catch-and-release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. Under the orders I…