Border Wall & 'Invasion'
2015
2015-06-16 Trump first pitched building a wall and promised Mexico would pay for it.
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473109475/trumps-plan-to-make-mexico-pay-for-the-wall
2016
2016-09-01 During an election speech in Phoenix AZ Trump promised the crowd Mexico would pay to build the wall.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45908
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37241284
2017
2017-04-05 John Kelly acknowledged that illegal drugs from Mexico “mostly come through the ports of entry”, further confirming that building a wall would do nothing to stop drugs from entering the US.
https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/border-security-and-public-safety/475195
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/will-trumps-wall-stop-drug-smuggling/
2018
2018-01-25 Texas smugglers reviewed Trump’s wall project and claimed it wouldn’t stop immigration or drug trafficking.
2018-11-07 Trump started using the language “invasion” when referring to immigration because Habeas Corpus has a suspension clause dependent upon any “rebellion or invasion”.
2019
2019-01-08 Trump claimed again his $5.7B border wall project would be paid for by Mexico.
2019-02-15 Trump declared a national emergency so he could redirect $8 billion dollars away from military construction and treasury funds towards building the border wall, and the ACLU sued.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45908
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37241284
2021
2021-07-26 JD Vance said, ”You can’t have so many people coming to the country at a time when our own families aren’t replicating themselves”.
https://baptistnews.com/article/jd-vance-has-an-odd-way-with-words/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2022
2022-03-17 JD Vance claimed immigration was an invasion on Fox, “They can’t win re-election in 2022 unless they bring in a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here. That’s what this is about. We have an invasion in this country.”
2022-04-05 Vance campaigned as an America First Conservative. He said in his ad, “Are YOU a racist? Do you hate Mexicans? The media calls us racist for wanting to build Trump’s wall. They censor us, but it doesn’t change the truth. Joe Biden’s open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs, and more Democrat voters pouring into this country. This issue is personal. I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across our border. No child should grow up an orphan.” [approved by JD Vance. Paid for by JD Vance for Senate Inc.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qYJoSV0lI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024
2024-03-28 Michigan State Representative Matt Maddock posted on social media during March Madness, “Happening right now. Three buses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort? @petehoekstra”.
https://x.com/matthewmaddock/status/1773143040724451761
2024-07-18 During the RNC, Trump once again used the language “invasion” when referring to immigration.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/immigration-invasion-trump
2025
2025-01-20 Trump signed executive order “Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion”
2025-04-17 American citizens, licensed doctors and attorneys received letters from DHS telling them, “It is time for you to leave the United States”.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-email-immigration-leave-country-rcna201698
2026 April
2026-04-24 An appeals court blocked Trump’s EO suspending asylum at the border. The court ruled that calling immigration an invasion is not legal.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/g-s1-118707/trump-asylum-ban-us-mexico-border-illegal
2026 May
2026-05-04 Border-wall crews destroyed a Native American archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert.
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_50f4781a-021a-4147-a38b-8be88efde41c.html
https://people.com/trump-border-wall-damaged-1000-year-old-native-site-11965452
SUB WALL https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/04/30/border-wall-damage-indigenous-arizona/
2026 July
2026-07-13 James Talarico campaigned to his State’s border districts, saying both parties have failed us on our borders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWyHDDBXKNE&list=WL&index=8&t=35s