During a speech from the Oval Office President Donald Trump appealed for full funding for his long-promised border wall by repeating several of the misstatements and exaggerations that his administration has been trumpeting for weeks.

The President cast immigrants with a dark brush, listing off murders committed by undocumented immigrants without mentioning the fact that immigrants actually have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans.

He also claimed drugs were pouring across the southern border without mentioning that the vast majority cross through ports of entry, not through the land where he would build his wall. 

And he blamed Democrats for an ongoing government shutdown that he proudly claimed as his own just a month ago during a meeting with congressional Democrats.

He also failed to mention comments made by his top officials in recent days that attempted to link terrorism with migration across the southern border. But he still managed to stretch the truth in a variety of ways. Here's a look at some of the claims Trump made during his 9-minute speech.

The border wall that he championed during his presidential campaign was the main reason Trump delivered his White House address on Tuesday. However, the president made a number of claims that were incorrect. 

He claimed that some people had called his push for a wall "immoral." On that point, he was right. Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: "a wall is an immorality between countries."

Trump also claimed that he changed his mind from a concrete wall to a steel one "at the request of Democrats."  This was a request own Border Patrol agents that led him to the change, a fact that Trump himself tweeted last month.

In December, he tweeted that "the experts at Border Patrol prefer a Wall that is see through," leading to the rows of steel bars that would make up vast sections of his ever-evolving border wall system.  

Trump also claimed that Democrats, supported a "physical barrier" before and "changed their mind only after I was elected president." 

The President was also incorrect on addressing the national opioid crisis that has become so deadly. During his speech, he said 90 percent of those drugs enter the country along the southern border, "including meth, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl."

However, the vast majority of those drugs enter through ports of entry along the border, not the vast stretches in between where he wants to erect his border wall.

According to data from Customs and Border Protection, during the first 11 months of the 2018 fiscal year, 90 percent of the heroin intercepted at the border, 88 percent of the cocaine, 87 percent of methamphetamine, and 80 percent of fentanyl, are captured at a legal port of entry.

Trump said Democrats "will not fund border security," but immediately after taking over the House of Representatives last week, they passed a funding bill dedicated to border security. It just didn't include funding for his wall.

The bill, passed on Jan. 3 with the support of five Republicans, would have devoted $1.3 billion for fencing and more for border security. The bill would have funded the Department of Homeland Security at current spending levels through Feb. 8 – but it would include no funding for Trump's border wall. 

Trump quickly dismissed that bill.

Democrats have also proposed other border security plans that focus on using technology along the southern border and improvements to ports of entry. 

This article appeared in USA Today