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Crisis of Border Lies: The Border is Not Open

If you are a regular consumer of conservative media, you’ve probably heard about the “crisis at the border” and Joe Biden’s “open border.” Republicans are regularly citing headlines like “Arrests along U.S.-Mexico border top 2 million a year…

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Crisis of Border Lies: Crime is Not Up Because of Illegal Crossings

Among the most unfounded lies is the one about crime being up because of illegal border crossings. This isn’t based on any factual data. In fact, one of the reasons why the number of people trying to cross…

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Biden Increases Immigration Enforcement

Crisis of Border Lies: Biden Actually Increased Funding for Border Enforcement and Immigration Processing

In March of 2022, the Biden Administration submitted its budget to congress and asked for a 700% increase in USCIS funding and an 80% increase in funding for immigration courts to process backlogs. Under Biden, Customs and Border…

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CBP Officer

Crisis of Border Lies: Biden’s Border Security Policies Are Actually Working and Keeping Drugs Off the Streets

If you happen to follow the GOP on Twitter you might think they’re working for the Biden Administration since they highlight his border security accomplishments on a daily basis. Because of Biden’s increased investments in Homeland Security, USCIS,…

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Trump's Border Wall Easily Climbed Over

Crisis of Border Lies: Donald Trump’s Border Was Never Secure

Republicans like to say that Donald Trump secured the border. That’s a lie. To get the facts, we actually look to the libertarian CATO Institute which as done some detailed reporting on this. According to their report titled…

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Biden with Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Crisis of Border Lies: Biden Actually Got Mexico to Pay for Border Security

This is true. On July 12, 2022, multiple news outlets reported on an agreement secured by Joe Biden for Mexico to contribute $1.5 billion to border security. ABC Reported, “Mexico on Tuesday agreed to contribute $1.5 billion to…

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