Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) stated Tuesday that “at least ten ISIS fighters” have been caught attempting to infiltrate the United States via the porous southern border:
The California Republican claims that “at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas,” in a conversation with Fox News on Tuesday. Hunter says that the Islamic terrorists are slipping into the U.S. through the porous southern border as several have already been captured.
“There’s nobody talking about it,” Rep. Hunter told Fox. “If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border. It’s that simple…They caught them at the border, therefore we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them then you know there’s going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol.”
The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Wednesday calling Hunter’s claims “categorically false.” A spokesman for Hunter fired back, saying:
“The Congressman was conveying what he knows — and what he was told,” the spokesperson told ABC. “It makes sense that the left hand of DHS doesn’t know what the right hand is doing — it’s been that way for a long time and we don’t expect that to change.”
Watch video of Hunter’s interview below:
