What Was Said

“We have already begun construction on the wall.”

— President Trump at a rally in Indiana on Thursday

The Facts

This is misleading.

During his campaign in 2016, Mr. Trump promised to construct a 1,000-mile-long border wall that would be paid for by Mexico.

Prototypes for the border wall were unveiled in late October, and Mr. Trump visited San Diego to view them in March. The prototypes have not been used to construct a border wall, nor has the wall been funded. However, construction has begun on a few projects that would replace old barriers with new barriers.

A White House spokesman cited projects in Santa Teresa, N.M., and Calexico, Calif., as evidence for Mr. Trump’s claim that construction on the wall had commenced.

According to Customs and Border Protection, the Santa Teresa project will replace 20 miles of vehicle barriers with a “bollard-style wall.”