southern border to infiltrate into the united states to carry out terrorist attacks, it just simply it didn t square with reality as i knew it to be. look, kirstjen nielsen s going to talk about this, director of homeland security or homeland security secretary. here is what she said about all of those terrorists that are among those trying to cross into the u.s. take a listen. cbp has stopped over 3,000 what we call special interest aliens trying to enter the country on the southern border, aliens who the intel community have identified as of concern. they either have travel patterns that are identified as terrorist travel patterns, or they have known or suspected ties to terrorism. okay, so, she s put a pretty broad description on those 3,000 that she s quoting. does that square with you? again, she s she may be technically accurate in talking about special interest aliens crossing in or trying to enter the united states. special interest aliens are a category of people w
august of 2018, they encountered 16,831 people convicted of crimes, okay? but i want you to listen to me clearly here. according to the washington post, 63% of them showed up at ports of entry, including airports, okay? the majority of them showed up at ports of entry including airports. and a wall wouldn t do much about that unless you were planning on building walls around all of our airports. then there is this from the homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. cbp 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 has identified are of concern. they either have travel patterns that are identified as terrorist travel patterns, or they have
they either have travel patterns that are identified as terrorist travel patterns, or they have known or suspected ties to terrorism. that sounds pretty scary, huh? but wait. former homeland security secretary john kelly, who is also the former chief of staff, white house chief of staff, defined special interest as, quote, being from parts of the world where terrorism is prevalent or nations that are hostile to the united states. a homeland security official in the obama administration told congress in 2016 that, quote, many citizens of these countries migrate for economic reasons or because they are feeling persecution in their home countries. and i want you to listen to this exchange between sarah sanders and fox news chris wallace. you have to watch this. chris wallace, who refused to let the white house press secretary off the hook. here it is. we know that roughly nearly
before that, i want to be clear on this. some people may not have the benefit of your reporting and critical analysis on this. i want to be plane hear, the president said it several times, and let s listen to it and i just want to slow it down so we can fully evaluate. we have stopped 3,000 special interest aliens trying to come in on the southern border, they are aliens who the intell community have identified are of concern. they have travel patterns identified as terrorist travel patterns or they have suspected ties to terrorism, she is talking about over 3,000. she is referring to them as
is house democrats in this case, he starts saying a state of emergency has to be called. make a deal. make a deal. he can t do it. both the president and the secretary of home land security tried to scare people that thousands of terrorists are pouring over the southern border. we have terrorists coming through the southern border because they find that s probably the easiest place to come through. they drive right in and they make a left. cvp has stopped 3,000 southern aliens trying to come over the border. they have been identified as concern. they either have travel patterns that are identified as terrorist travel patterns or they have known or suspected ties to terrorism. we re going to hand things over to fox news s chris wallace for this fact check that he did with white house press secretary sarah sanders.