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“Border” said in 217 of 464 transcripts, 1,003 times.
Counted forms: border, borders, border's.
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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…