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Twenty-Five Million to Zero: How a Release Statistic Became a Border That Doesn’t Exist
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Claim: illegal immigration went from 25 million entries under Biden to zero under Trump. Our verdict is false (truth score 0.10, confidence 0.85), because both numbers are wrong.
The show we checked: The Dan Bongino Show, "Bongino Weekend Report – Week of 09/14/26" (published 19 September 2026), at 37:29.
The strongest case for the claim comes first. The drop in border crossings is real, historically large and fast. Bongino did not invent the phrase "zero illegal aliens admitted." It is…
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