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Greg Abbott stated on May 12, 2016 in addressing the Republican Party of Texas state convention:

"ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obama’s policies."

By Dylan Baddour • June 17, 2016

John Carter stated on March 10, 2016 in a commentary published in the Round Rock Leader:

"This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations."

By Nicole Barrios • May 4, 2016

Rick Perry stated on January 15, 2016 in Radio interview:

"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."

By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016

Ted Cruz stated on August 21, 2015 in answering a reporter in Iowa:

"In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 28, 2015

Rick Perry stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."

By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015

Gary Painter stated on May 10, 2015 in as quoted in a Midland Reporter-Telegram news story:

"We’re the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2015

Barack Obama stated on November 20, 2014 in a speech:

Citing his efforts to secure the border, Obama said, "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s."

By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2014

Steve King stated on July 10, 2014 in an interview on Fox news:

Says "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border."

By Lauren Carroll • July 14, 2014

Rick Santorum stated on July 13, 2014 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Children are crossing the border because President Barack Obama said "if you come, you’re going to be able to stay, because we’re not going to enforce the law."

By Jon Greenberg • July 13, 2014

Ted Cruz stated on June 23, 2014 in a press conference at Lackland Air Force Base:

Says children are coming into the U.S. in "staggering numbers" because President Barack Obama "has been promising amnesty."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2014

Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on June 20, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:

"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."

By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2013

Steve King stated on May 23, 2013 in a House floor speech:

"Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 1986 amnesty act" gave Barack Obama about 15 million additional Hispanic votes in 2012.

By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2013

Barack Obama stated on May 4, 2013 in his weekly radio address.:

Says "we" have put more boots on the U.S.-Mexico border "than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2013

Marco Rubio stated on April 30, 2013 in a Fox News interview:

"We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law."

By Molly Moorhead • May 7, 2013

Wayne LaPierre stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed for the Daily Caller:

"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."

By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013

Barack Obama stated on October 22, 2012 in the third presidential debate:

Says Mitt Romney "just gave a speech a few weeks ago" and said "we should still have troops in Iraq."

By Katie Sanders • October 23, 2012

Barack Obama stated on October 16, 2012 in the second presidential debate:

Says Mitt Romney "called the Arizona law a model for the nation."

By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2012

Barack Obama stated on July 17, 2012 in a speech in San Antonio.:

Mitt Romney "says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2012

Mitt Romney stated on February 22, 2012 in in a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.:

"This president ... could have gotten crippling sanctions against Iran. He did not."

By Becky Bowers • February 24, 2012

Rick Perry stated on September 22, 2011 in in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando:

"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."

By Becky Bowers • September 23, 2011

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