House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that the amount of known and suspected terrorists crossing the southern border who are real terrorist threats “is actually pretty small. It’s in the double digits.” And that “Many” of those known and suspected terrorists are Colombians who “may have been associated with one of the revolutionary groups there, including groups that are no longer designated as terrorists.” And that while border security needs a lot of improvement, we shouldn’t talk about the border in ways that “raise the risk in immigrant communities and inside this country.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that the amount of known and suspected terrorists crossing the southern border who are real terrorist threats “is actually pretty small. It’s in the double digits.” And that “Many” of those known and suspected terrorists are Colombia ns who “may have been associated with one of the revolutionary groups there, including groups that are no longer designated as terrorists.
” And that while border security needs a lot of improvement, we shouldn’t talk about the border in ways that “raise the risk in immigrant communities and inside this country.” Host Jake Tapper asked, “So, let me start with you, Ranking Member Himes, because I want to ask about the border. It’s such a politically fraught issue for any president, but the statistics we’re hearing are alarmin
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