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“Border” said in 217 of 464 transcripts, 1,003 times.
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Jul 3, 2025 Other 1 time
…biggest tax cut in history, great for security, great on the southern border. Immigration is covered. We covered just about everything. Again, it's the biggest…
Jul 1, 2025 Other 1 time
…I always said the most difficult thing is what happened at the border, allowing 21 or 25 million people to come into our country. It's…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times
…Thank you, Joe. Joe is great. With the help of those incredible Border Patrol agents, we now have the lowest level of daily border crossings…
…why the "One Big Beautiful Bill" includes funding for 3,000 new Border Patrol officers and 10,000 new ICE agents. And I've gotten to…
…the Border Patrol and ICE very well, unlike Kamala. She was the border czar, but she never saw the border. She never made one phone…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…what they've made us do. This is all because of an open-border policy where 25 million people flowed in from all over the world…
…We had—you know, when I left, we had a very powerful border. We had no problem. He opened it up, day one. He just…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…be. This is a very important thing. We're setting records at the border. You know, we had no people come through last month. Zero. No…
…problem with this. There was never anything like this. We had great borders. It was bad when I came in. Within 3 months, I fixed…
…come in, the difference is this was 20 times worse. Their open-border policy did so much damage to our country, and we're fixing it…
Jul 1, 2025 Other 1 time
…everybody. And it's also a beautiful economic development bill: great for the border, great for low taxes. And I would say that they have to…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…everybody else, what they're doing at DOJ and all over—FBI, ICE, Border Patrol—these are incredible people. They're trying to keep our country safe…
…approving it. But think of what they're not approving. They're not approving border security. We've done a great job at the border, but we have…
…We have no money for that. We have no money for the border. We have no money for so many things. But if the Democrats…
Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 24 times
…saying that, virtually everybody—the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to secure our borders, turbocharge our economy, and bring back the American dream. That's what's happening…
…a record tax cut, a record spending cut, a record investment in border security. We've done so well on the border. You know, last month…
…a—but, you know, people forget about that. They don't care. The border has been fixed. I wanted to talk about the border 2 days…
Jun 25, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…was dead." And it was dead. You had people pouring through the borders, you had inflation, you had everything. He said, "You've made it"—in…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…biggest scandals. He wasn't making a decision. He was never for open borders, where people came in from all over the world—from prisons and…
…mentally insane. He was never for that. He was never for open borders, and he was never for—if you think, he was never for…
…a really good question. No, we had record-good numbers on the border, and people are coming in, but they have to come in legally…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…into the country. You know, if you come in through the southern border, you have no problem. You can be a criminal, you can be…
…sign, because say what you want about Biden, he wasn't for open borders. He wasn't for transgender for everybody. He wasn't for men playing in…
…to ask me that. Zero, yes. Because we really have a tight border. Now, we have let a lot of people in, but they came…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a period of 4 months. So we've reduced the number of illegal border crossers. And you know that because you look at the numbers. And…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…previous administration. I could go point after point, everything they did: open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody. "Everybody, let's go transgender…
…because most of the bill is common sense. It's tax cuts. It's border wall funding. It's military funding properly spent. It's all things that are…
Jun 10, 2025 Other 4 times
…men playing in women's sports. I think that's a ridiculous thing. Open borders—you take a look at open borders. Open borders is what caused…
…guess, but many of them—came through the Joe Biden, stupid, open borders. Really sad to watch. It's very sad to watch this being our…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…stupid people or radical-left people or sick people. But regardless, open-border policy, the dumbest policy yet—I would say, even dumber than men…
…out. Their countries would bus them or drive them right to our border and say: "Go in there. You ever come back, we're going to…
…was? He wasn't a radical-left lunatic. He never dreamt about open borders. He never said that when he was of sound mind, which actually…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…think he even knew about it. But when they opened up our borders for the whole world to come in—yes, we're going to get…
Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…tax cuts in the history of our country, including the most powerful border security measures ever, it delivers major economic relief to the American workers…
Jun 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…appropriate. Upon taking office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and we reduced the number of illegal border crossers released into the…
…plus. They're all coming in. It also includes the largest investment in border security in our Nation's history, equipping law enforcement with the tools to…
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…didn't know many of the things. Look, he was never for open borders. He was never for transgender for everybody. He was never for men…
…of the things I ran on was that. I ran on the border. We have the best border in the history of our country: 99…
…job. But nobody mentions that anymore. Remember, a few months ago, the border was a total disaster. People were coming in by the hundreds of…
Jun 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…things. In a matter of weeks, we slashed the number of illegal border crossings released into the United States down to practically nothing. Three people…
Jun 2, 2025 Tele-rally 2 times
…our country by Biden and his group of people with their open-border craziness. We're taking care of it. As you probably heard, we had…
May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…But what he did to this country is a disgrace—between the borders, millions and millions of peoples pouring through our borders from all countries…
…And I thought they were kidding, but they weren't. They wanted open borders, and what they let into our country can never be forgotten. The…
…999 percent. Can you imagine? That was our cut. It's been— the border is closed. But it's open—and it will always be open to…
May 30, 2025 Press conference 6 times
…would have been—a horrible, horrible situation was going on with the borders, with transgender for everyone, men playing in women's sports, and so much…
…I knew Joe Biden. Joe Biden wasn't in favor of opening up borders, letting 21 million people into this—from prisons and mental institutions and…
…Autopens are not meant to sign major proclamations or tax cuts or borders, anything having to do with the border, which is so important. And…
May 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we went through. Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable and not for today to…
May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…to all manner of social projects and political causes, while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries' wars. We fought…
…that a central purpose of our military is to protect our own borders from invasion. Our country was invaded for the last 4 years, and…
…do. And on day one, I deployed our military to the southern border, and since that day, we've reduced the number of illegal border crossings…
May 21, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…all you have to do is take a look at the southern border. We let 21 million people come through our border totally unchecked, totally…
May 20, 2025 Other 1 time
…country, and you see that with the past administration with an open borders policy that allowed 21 million people into our country, and many of…
May 20, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…whole thing with who signed this legislation. Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said: "There's nobody that could want…
…president that didn't sign anything. He autopenned almost every—he opened the borders of the United States of America. And I kept saying, "Who would…
…approved it. You take a look, he would have never approved open borders. Go ahead. Another one. Oh, yes, sure. You have a couple that…
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 Meeting 1 time
…almost no inflation. So we've got the economy back. We've got a border now that's very powerful—99.9 percent—and nobody would have believed…
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 30, 2025 Meeting 14 times
…weren't fact. In a few short weeks, we've achieved the most secure border in American history, by far— 99.9 percent, which is a number…
…the legislature to get legislation passed in order to create a secure border. You didn't. You just had to have the right President and the…
…we have set the alltime record for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. The number of illegal border crossers released into the…
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 29, 2025 Other 2 times
…everything or it's in the process of being done. For instance, the border is in great shape. Ninety-nine point nine percent came out again…
…that we're working on now, maybe more important than anything, with the border in good shape— ——is the fact—excuse me—is the fact that…
Apr 25, 2025 Other 2 times
…on a lot of projects right now. The wall is solved. The border is the most secure it's ever been. We're having a very hard…
…bad one—over 30 people. Well, there have been tensions on that border for 1,500 years, so, you know, it's the same as it's…
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 21, 2025 Other 3 times
…in our country. They don't want illegal immigrants. We've closed up the border. The border is now the strongest border we've ever had. Well, if…
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 17, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open borders—I'm going to get them out." And I got a lot of…
…serious criminals. I'm not saying just criminals because they came into the border illegally. I'm saying they're criminals at the highest level. Murderers. Many of…
…that, but we've done much better. We have, right now, 99-percent border. It's at 99 percent. Nobody thought that would even be—nobody's coming…
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 14, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…what they did and what that party did to our country—open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said…
…I can say it. But what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It's a sin, what they…
…great. Kristi, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing, how we're—— Thank you very much. Incredible, right? The…