The Republicans claim terrorists have recently crossed over the Southern border. Democrats say the Republicans are lying.
What's the truth?
The truth is, narco-terrorism is very real and four known individuals on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Database have been arrested at the Southern border since October.
These are facts.
Four people on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database have been arrested at the southern border since the beginning of October, the Customs and Border Protection agency told Congress on Tuesday, according to Axios.
The report comes one day after congressional Democrats accused House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of lying when he said during a press conference Monday that people on the terrorist watch list from Yemen, Iran and Turkey have been caught trying to cross the southern border.
“When you go up to Monument Three and you talk to those agents, it’s not just people from Mexico or Honduras or El Salvador. They’re now finding people from Yemen, Iran, Turkey,” McCarthy said on Monday outside a migrant processing center in El Paso. “People on the terrorist watch list they are catching.”
Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona said in a tweet Monday he was “pretty sure” McCarthy was “either wrong or lying.”
Axios confirmed on Tuesday that CBP had arrested four people on the Terrorist Screening Database since Oct. 1, three of which were from Yemen and one who was from Serbia, citing a congressional aide that was briefed on the conversation.
Gallego’s insinuation on Monday that McCarthy was “either wrong or lying” about suspected terrorists being arrested crossing the southern border received widespread media coverage. His comments received coverage in The Washington Post, the Daily Beast, MSNBC, Business Insider, the Independent and Vox.
Guards protect a team of computer experts and hackers using surveillance to check on local government officials, who may be colluding with the country's drug cartels, inside a cabin in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The narco-traffickers already hold sway over swaths of Mexico, either co-opting state officials or openly defying them. Now they're encroaching on the country's spring-break meccas like never before, leaving bodies in suitcases outside exclusive condos, or shooting up nightclubs. Photographer: Brett Gundlock/Bloomberg via Getty Images