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Uvalde, Texas, Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr. on what he’s seen firsthand of the border crisis.<\/p>\n
Democrats and liberal media outlets questioned claims from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., about people on the “terrorist watch list” being detained while attempting to cross the southern border, but new information shows that McCarthy was right. <\/p>\n
McCarthy delivered the warning about the “terrorist watch list” on Monday during an interview outside El Paso, Texas, shortly after speaking with border agents, who warned about foreign nationals on the terrorist watch list entering the United States.<\/p>\n
BORDER ‘DISORDER’ EXPLOITED BY POTENTIAL TERRORISTS, GOP LAWMAKERS SAY<\/strong> <\/p>\n “When you go out to Monument 3 and you talk to those agents, it\u2019s not just people from Mexico or Honduras or El Salvador, they are now finding people from Yemen, Iran, Turkey,” McCarthy said. “People on the terrorist watch list they are catching and they are rushing it all at once.”<\/p>\n McCarthy’s remarks were met with skepticisim from Democrats. <\/p>\n “Weird as the Chairman of the subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations and a border state member of Congress haven\u2019t heard anything about this,” Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., tweeted. “Gonna ask for a briefing. Pretty sure he is either wrong or lying.”<\/p>\n In another tweet, Gallego noted he has the “same security clearance” as McCarthy and requested a classified briefing so other committee members could “see where this info derived from.”<\/p>\n Gallego wasn\u2019t the only Democrat who attacked McCarthy over the “terrorist watch list” soundbite. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, accused McCarthy of trying to “fuel the divisions” and target immigrants.<\/p>\n Multiple media outlets, including MSNBC and Vox, attempted to push the narrative that McCarthy was wrong. An MSNBC article claimed McCarthy “Pushes his luck at border” with the terror watch list claim, and a Vox article claimed McCarthy was pushing “one of Trump\u2019s most notorious immigration lies.”<\/p>\n