Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
2 of 2 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 12 Mar 2025 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Howard Lutnick
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12 Mar 2025 – 12 Mar 2025
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Howard Lutnick
Lutnick states 11,000 Mexican troops currently guard the border wall under Trump administration.
“11,000 Mexican troops are guarding the wall because they care about America, they care about America when Donald Trump's in the White House.”
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JD Vance
Vance claims closing the border required only a new president, not new legislation.
“But as we've learned over the past eighteen months, it didn't require a new law to close down that border. It just required a new US president.”
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JD Vance
Vance frames media and Democrat criticism of border enforcement as calling it heartless.
“By closing the Southern border, the media and the democrats, they say that it's heartless. It's heartless to enforce your border,”
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JD Vance
Vance cites Maine overdose deaths down 20 percent in 2025 and another 17 percent in 2026 after border closure.
“Last year in 2025, did you know that overdoses in the state of Maine were down by twenty percent? And already in 2026, they're down by another seventeen percent.”
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JD Vance
Vance directly attributes Maine overdose decline to border sealing policy.
“We sealed the border, and that's what happened, my friends, and that's why we did it.”
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