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The Trump administration often made false claims about this statistic, but Rep. Kevin McCarthy made a more limited claim.

Border officials have now admitted that four people that have been arrested at the border in the last six months were on the terror watchlist: AXIOS – The Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed to Congress today that four people arrested at the southern border since Oct. 1 match names on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database, a congressional aide briefed on the correspondence told Axios. Three of the people arrested were from Yemen and one was from Serbia. The four arrests are more...

U.S. Military Refuses to Call Border Situation Crisis, Raises Terrorism Concerns On 3/17/21 at 7:16 AM EDT Military commanders have refused to weigh in on whether the current situation at the U.S. southern border constitutes a "crisis," instead focusing on the dire domestic conditions in Central American nations that are driving migration waves northwards. The commanders of the U.S. Northern Command and Southern Command told reporters at a joint briefing on Tuesday that the military is continui...

Mar 17, 2021 Another component of the open border crisis is the potential for terrorists coming across the border. It’s a no brainer that these organization wishing to launch a terror attack here would exploit our porous borders. Axios reports that the Customs & Border Protection agency confirmed to Congress: “that four people arrested at the southern border since Oct. 1 match names on the FBIs Terrorist Screening Database… Three of the people arrested were from Yemen and one was from Ser...

Fact-checking GOP claims that people on terror watch list are "rushing" the border CNN 3 days ago By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN © Adrees Latif/Reuters Asylum seeking migrant mothers from Central America hold their children as they await transport after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft in La Joya, Texas, U.S., March 14, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif Amid a significant increase in the number of migrants showing up at the US...

Tue, 03/16/2021 - 20:11 — legitgov Four people matching terror watchlist arrested at border | 16 March 2021 | The Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed to Congress today that four people arrested at the southern border since Oct. 1 match names on the FBIs Terrorist Screening Database, a congressional aide briefed on the correspondence told Axios. Three of the people arrested were from Yemen and one was from Serbia. The four arrests are more than the number of similar people tak...

Earlier this week, House Republicans John Katko (R-NY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) suggested that the US-Mexico border is being exploited by terrorists due to Bidens policies and alleged that those on the terror watchlist from Iran, Turkey, and Yemen were being caught at the border. While Representative Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) said that border agents made no mention of terrorism suspects coming across the border, the Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed to Co...

“Republicans revive one of Trump’s most notorious immigration lies,” one Vox article stated. MSNBC alleged that McCarthy “may have gotten ahead of his talking points yesterday” and said that his comments left “reason for skepticism.” "That would be a rather extraordinary thing to lie about. We probably havent heard the last of this one."https://t.co/VBKywme4qg “Democrats Call Bullsh-t on McCarthy’s Claim That Suspected Terrorists Have Been Caught at Mexico Border,” The Daily...

Four people arrested at the southern border since Oct. 1 were on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Database.

Four people on the FBIs terror watch list - three from Yemen and one from Serbia - have been arrested at the US-Mexico border since October, CBP confirms The Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed the arrests to Congress on Tuesday, a congressional aide told Axios The names of the people apprehended were not released The source said three were from Yemen and the fourth was from Serbia The news came a day after House Republicans claimed that an unspecified number of migrants crossing the...