TCT-IMM-019 · Crime
“Many” people crossing under Biden were terrorists
Statement and context
“And many of those people are terrorists.”
2024-01-10, Fox News Iowa town hall, referring to people entering illegally or expected to enter.
What the evidence shows
CBP’s Terrorist Screening Dataset includes known or suspected terrorists plus affiliates and other people who may represent a threat; an encounter is not proof that the person is a terrorist. Watchlist encounters were rare relative to millions of border encounters, and many occurred at northern legal ports rather than between southwest ports. There is no official evidence that “many” unauthorized entrants were terrorists. Data cannot measure people never detected, so a zero-risk claim would also be unwarranted.
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Sources and attribution
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