Jim Geraghty
National Review
10/8/2014
…Say What? ‘At Least Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Caught Coming Across the Border’
Rep. Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, does not seem like a nut job or prone to wild exaggerations. But last night he said something that should make jaws drop:
Van Susteren: Hold on. Stop for one second.
Hunter: They are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.
Van Susteren: Let me ask a question. You say that they are coming in the southern border, which changes all the dynamics Do you have any information that they are coming in through the southern border now?
Hunter: Yes.
Van Susteren: Tell me what you know.
Hunter: At least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.
Van Susteren: How do you know that?
Hunter: Because I’ve asked the border patrol, Greta.
Van Susteren And the border patrol just lets ISIS members come across the border?
Hunter: No. They caught them at the border. Therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them, you know that there are going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol. That’s how you know. That’s where we are at risk here, is from ISIS and radical Islamists coming across the border. Once again, they don’t have a navy, air force, nuclear weapons. The only way that Americans are going to be harmed by radical Islam — Chairman Dempsey said the same thing. He said that’s where the major threat is here, that’s how these guy guys are going to infiltrate through America and harm Americans…
The complete article is at National Review Online.
Update: Lawmaker: 10 IS Fighters Have Crossed the Southern Border
…DHS, the agency that oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), rejected Hunter’s claim when approached by the Washington Free Beacon for comment…
