11,888 murderers entered the United States illegally in the last 17 months.

Posted by Badlands Media, Oct 15, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictFalse

Sources: 3 contradict2 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 70%

Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026

The 11,888 murderers figure comes from Trump's remarks about the Biden-era border, not the last 17 months as the claim states, and fact-checkers reject it. Source [8] rates the claim a 'blatant lie' because the figure includes noncitizens who entered under multiple administrations, some legally, and many were incarcerated, while Source [6] calls the Biden/Democrat murderer claim untrue.

What was said

… for the past 17 months, think of this, we had it's hard to believe this number because they had 25 million pour in from prisons and from other countries all over the world, from the Congo to South America. They emptied their prisons, mental institutions. 11,888 murderers they let them pour in. It's hard to believe when you hear this number, because in the last 17 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States. Zero. …

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What we found

Contradicts. A Yahoo-syndicated fact check of Trump's Republican convention speech states that it is not true that the Biden administration or Democrats allowed '11,888 murderers' to enter the country.[4]

Contradicts. A fact check rates Trump's claim that the Biden administration allowed 11,888 murderers to enter illegally a 'BLATANT LIE', noting the figure included noncitizens who entered under multiple administrations, some legally, and many were incarcerated rather than living freely in the US.[5]

Contradicts. FactCheck.org, a tier-1 fact-checker, reviewed Trump's Youngstown remarks repeating the 11,888 murderers figure and found his 25 million illegal-entry figure more than double the number of people caught crossing the border illegally.[1]

Context. CBP data show Border Patrol homicide/manslaughter criminal-alien convictions of only 11 through June FY2026, far below the 11,888 figure, and DHS and PolitiFact report near-zero admissions and no releases of illegal crossers for months.[2][3]