congress and it's misleading. think write represents individuals all oaf the world who are blocked from traveling to or entering the u.s. not necessarily along the southern southwest border. some were stopped before they boarded flights. some before they even obtain eda visa. now to be exceedingly generous to sarah sanders for a minute, maybe she got confused with these numbers. >> has stopped over 3,000 what we call special interest aliens trying to come into the country on the southern border. those are aliens who the sbel community has identified are of concern. >> all right, so sounds like she's talking about terrorists there. there's no uniform definition of the term special interest alien, however her predecessor, john kelly, did sort of spell it out u. they are he said from parts of the world where terrorism is prevalent or nations that are hostile to the united states. 2016 department of inspector general's report defined those