the way, most of these people show up at airports, not our land borders. our land borders, without a doubt, are being flooded right now with people. there is a border problem because of the people of south america and that is my judgment. you said, i am concerned with what we refer to as the special interest alien that comes from the other hemisphere, the concern being that someone coming from another country not mexico, but a country where there is an attempted role, how real is that? we should be focused on
apprehended at the southern border. and the vice president of the united states who some refer to as the grown nup the game, tried to pull a fast one and a shell game that he continues sarah sanders claim that 3,000 people are coming into the game, and this is at the airports and not the border. but then he brought up 3,000. and he tried to imply they are special interest aliens, and those are people who come from countries that the united states has their eye on and they are usually muslim countries by the way, and what mike pence is trying to do is to tell you that the people who come from the muslim countries with islamic majority are dangerous. and so, no person who has been on a watch list like that has committed an act of terror, no single one. and no special interest alien has ever committed an act of r
the world who were 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 obtained a 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 intel community have identified are of concern. all right, so sounds like she s talking about terrorists there. and keeping them honest, there s no uniform definition of the term special interest alien. however, her predecessor at dhs, john kelly, did sort of spell it out. 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 special interest countries that
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
constituted a national emergency. i want to get you on special interest aliens. can you in your layman s terms, can you explain why this matters? in the mediate aftermath of 9/11 there was a memo identifying special interest countries. it s a broad and sweeping list that includes countries like thailand and cambodia. it was based on general intelligence. since then within the department any time we apprehend anyone from that country, they re considered a special interest alien. that doesn t mean they pose a threat. there s a dramatic difference between suggesting they intend to cause harm in the united states and whether or not they were just born in a country like cambodia or thailand. got it. john, pete, i appreciate both of you coming onto break that down. thank you. up next, more and more