The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Barack Obama touts record high border agents, lowest immigration from Mexico in 40 years

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sparred over border-control policy during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University. Here’s one of Obama’s claims: "We put more border patrol on the (U.S.-Mexico border than at) any time in history, and the flow of undocumented workers across the border is actually lower than it's been in 40 years." We’ll look at the two parts of this claim in order. A record number of border patrol officers? As of 2011, the most recent year available, the Border Patrol has >> More