Posted on 01/06/2019 12:30:52 PM PST by jazusamo
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat down with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday to discuss the government shutdown and the status of negotiation talks. During the interview, Wallace blatantly asked Sanders how she knows terrorists are entering the United States through our southern border.
"Let's talk about the wall, because there is no question that there has been a big spike in the number of family units coming across the border. The president talks about terrorists potentially coming across the border and here is Secretary Homeland Security Nielsen. Take a look," Wallace said, going to a clip of Nielsen.
In the clip Nielsen said Customs and Border Protection has stopped around 300 Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) from coming to the United States through the southern border.
"Those are aliens who the intel community has identified as a concern," Nielsen said in the clip.
"But Special Interest Aliens are just people who come from countries that have ever produced a terrorist, not terrorists themselves and the State Department says, in their own words 'no credible evidence of any terrorist coming across the border from Mexico,'" Wallace said in reaction to Nielsen's comments.
“We know that, roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegallyand we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border,” Sanders responded.
"Wait, wait, wait, " Wallace interrupted. "I know this statistic and wasn't sure if you were going to use it but I studied up on this. Do you know where those 4,000 people come, where they're captured? Airports."
"Not always, but certainly a large number," Sanders said.
"Airports. The State Department says there hasn't been any terrorists that they've found coming across the southern border," Wallace interrupted again.
"It's by air. It's by land. It's by sea," Sanders replied. "It's all of the above. But the one thing that you're forgetting is that the most vulnerable point of entry that we have into this country is our southern border and we have to protect it."
"They're not coming across the southern borders, Sarah. They're coming and being stopped at airports," Wallace refuted.
"They're coming in a number of ways. Certainly, I'm not disagreeing with you that they come through their airports," Sanders replied. "I'm saying by air, by land and by sea. And the more and more that our border becomes vulnerable and the less and less we spend time and money protecting it the more of an influx we're going to have, not just of terrorists, but of human traffickers, drug inflow and people wanting to do American citizens harm."
Chris Wallace turns on Sarah Sanders swapping #FictionForFacts
I can’t stand that DemocRat pansy.
Somebody should stuff that fruity handkerchief down his throat.
No doubt about it.
People who are on terrorist watch list have been “encountered” at the border with Mexico. Also special interest aliens- that may not be the term used..but close. Anyway the number is not big and impressive, and since they were either refused entry or apprehended they committed no terrorist acts here so the left is saying no proof they are/were terrorists. Usual parsing of words, truth is there is no proof they were not terrorists. The big issue is no one knows how many on terrorist watch list or those that we might have a special interest in actually came across the border and were not “encountered” by Border Patrol or Customs. No one has ever claimed that Border Patrol and/or Customs “encounter” every single person that attempts to cross the border. If that were true we would have the border 100% secure which is impossible.
So the truth of how many terrorists, suspected terrorists, possible terrorists have crossed or attempted to cross this border is unknown by anyone. Even one is too many. For those that disagree, how many is an acceptable number?
I don’t know if it is true but read an article a few minutes ago that said President Trump is backing off of saying that terrorists enter America via the Southern Border. I hope he is not backtracking, let the left prove it isn’t happening, or let them name a number of suspected terrorists that is acceptable to allow to cross the border.
As long as our border is not secure we have no idea whatsoever who is entering and what their purpose is. That is the truth, and that is the problem.
I agree and like you I hope he isn’t backing off.
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