(VOA) U.S. homeland security officials are pushing back against claims that known and suspected terrorists are trying to sneak into the country from Mexico, calling such incidents “very uncommon.”
Republican lawmakers have been sounding alarms about what they say is a growing immigration crisis along the U.S southern border. And in an interview Monday with Fox News, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy alleged terrorists were using the situation to infiltrate the country.
“It’s not just people from Mexico or Honduras or El Salvador,” McCarthy said. “They’re now finding people from Yemen, Iran, Turkey — people on the terrorist watch list.”
