Democrats are planning to reopen the southern border and open the prisons and jails of the planet to release criminals into the United States.
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Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026
The post made a conditional forecast ('if the Democrats get back into power, they will...'), but the extracted claim restates it as a present plan ('are planning'), which departs from the passage.
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… They rigged it through COVID and other things. Uh, I said, "Let's do it again," and we did it again, and we won in historic, with historic numbers. It was amazing. So, if the Democrats get back into power, they will immediately reopen your borders, sell out Arizona to the cartels, raise your prices, and open the prisons and jails of the planet so that they can come in totally unchecked, totally unvetted, into Arizona and every other place like it was. I mean, if you remember back three, four years ago, how bad it was, you were living in hell. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The Marshall Project (2024) found no evidence that immigrants crossing the southern border were systematically released from overseas prisons or jails, but its subject is Trump's claims about Venezuela and not any Democratic plan.[7]
Context. A White House release and Senate statements describe Democrats as pushing to reopen the southern border or open borders, but these are partisan characterizations rather than documented Democratic plans.[3][4][5]
Context. A Congressional Record statement quotes a Democratic Socialists of America cochair answering 'Yeah' when asked whether Democrats want to abolish prisons, which is a political characterization of one person's answer rather than a documented plan to release criminals into the U.S.[5][6]
Context. Earlier FactCheck.org and PolitiFact coverage (2018) found that Democrats were not advocating open borders and that the 'open borders bill' claim was false, which undercuts the broader open-borders framing but concerns earlier events.[1][2]
Sources
7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Donald Trump falsely claims there's an 'open borders bill' ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Calls to Abolish ICE Not 'Open Borders' - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Bombshell Report Exposes True Cost of Radical ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Thune: Democrats Continue Following Biden's Failed Border Blueprintthune.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5Radical Democrats Are Determined to Tear Down Our Country and ...barrasso.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 6Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 125 (Thursday, July 30, 2026)govinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 7South America Isn't Dumping Prisoners Into the U.S. ...themarshallproject.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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