Trump admin claims 4,000 suspected terrorists stopped at border, real number: 6

[Mormolyce]

4,000 Suspected Terrorists Stopped at the Mexico Border, Says White House. Actually, It’s More Like Six, Reports U.S. Customs

U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered only six immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border whose names were in a federal database of known or suspected terrorists, contradicting earlier White House claims that nearly 4,000 suspected terrorists were stopped at the country’s southern border.

The disclosure, made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen Monday and first reported by NBC News, concerned only the first half of 2018. Of 41 people stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border by the CBP in that period, 35 were U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, with the other six classified as non-residents.

By contrast, the CBP encountered 91 people at the U.S.-Canada border whose names were on the federal list, with 41 of them non-U.S. citizens or residents, NBC said.

On Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, said that CBP stopped nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists from crossing the southern border in 2018. Fact-checks of Sanders’ statement showed that the 4,000 figure applied to 2017, not 2018, and included stops made by DHS officials around the globe, with the vast majority of them occurring at airports.

Sanders appeared on Fox News Sunday and mentioned again the 4,000 known or suspected terrorists figure. When Fox News host Chris Wallace challenged her assertion and mentioned that most of the stops happened at airports, Sanders acknowledged that “they’re coming in a number of ways.”

Wallace then countered, “The State Department says there hasn’t been any terrorists that they’ve found coming across the southern border with Mexico.”

http://fortune.com/2019/01/07/4000-s...ports-customs/

And remember, that's six SUSPECTED, ie they happened to have the same name as someone on a terror watch list.

The source of the 4,000 is from 2017 and included ALL DHS stops, vast majority of which are in AIRPORTS.

Meanwhile there were 41 on the Canadian border. Trump wants to build the wall on the wrong side of the country LOL.

[Felya]

Unless these are Mexican terrorist, flying into Mexico to cross the south borders is just stupid. Where should I fly? A place where I can get murdered running to a heavily guarded border... or fly to Canada and take an Uber to about a mile from the border.

[Dendrek]

Unless these are Mexican terrorist, flying into Mexico to cross the south borders is just stupid. Where should I fly? A place where I can get murdered running to a heavily guarded border... or fly to Canada and take an Uber to about a mile from the border.

The solution is to build a wall on Canada's border instead.

But what if a terrorist flies directly into the US? Now we need borders between every state!

But what if they come in by boat? Holy shit, border the fucking oceans...!

But what if they're already living in the US? Mother of all that is what the fuck I'm freaking out... border every god damn house and street!

Why aren't we funding this?

[Mormolyce]

Seems simpler to just build a border around Trump himself.

[PosPosPos]

Seems simpler to just build a border around Trump himself.

Yeah, it's called a life sentence in a super-max isolation facility with no chance for parole. Those exist already in the US, surely they can make one vacancy.