Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, reported that four individuals with ties to terrorist organizations were captured after crossing the southern border on September 10 of this year on the Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File” on Wednesday.
“We captured, there are 466,000 people that have been captured crossing our borders over the last 351 days, yet by Homeland Security’s own numbers, 157,000 people got away, and the people we did capture, they come from 143 different countries. 13 were from Syria, six were from Iraq, four were from Iran. We had four people with known ties from a Middle Eastern country captured having already crossed the border, our southern border in Texas, four people captured from a Middle Eastern country with known ties to a terrorist country and he [Secretary of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson] doesn’t know the answer to that question” he said.
Chaffetz also stated that Johnson did not know what the operational control on the southern border is, “I asked him ‘what is the operational control right now on the border? What is the operational control?’ And he said ‘I don’t know.’ How could he not know? He’s the Homeland Security secretary.”
He further declared, “We have a porous border. We are worried about, every story on the news tonight is about ISIS. I’m worried about them actually coming to the United States and crossing that porous border, and getting into the homeland.”
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