GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter Claims 'At Least' Ten ISIS Fighters Apprehended On Texas Border

[Rob L 3,811]

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that Hunter's claim otherwise was "categorically false."

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) claimed Tuesday that "at least" ten Islamic State fighters were apprehended while attempting to enter the U.S. at its southern border.

The San Diego Republican said that U.S. Border Patrol "sources" told him that "at least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas."

"If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border — it’s that simple," he said. "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," he said on Fox News’ "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."

"ISIS doesn’t have a navy, they don’t have an air force, they don’t have nuclear weapons," he added. "The only way that ISIS is going to harm Americans is by coming through the southern border – which they already have."

Two of the country's top intelligence officials said last month they had no credible evidence to support the theory that militants are operating next door, nor that they are plotting to sneak across the border.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that Hunter's claim otherwise was "categorically false."

"The suggestion that individuals who have ties to ISIL have been apprehended at the Southwest border is categorically false, and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground," DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron told The Huffington Post. "DHS continues to have no credible intelligence to suggest terrorist organizations are actively plotting to cross the southwest border."

Hunter, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, isn't the first member of Congress to raise the alarm about the prospect of extremists crossing the border. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) suggested last month that such infiltration was possible, and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said it was already happening. Texas Gov. Rick Perry ® has also sounded similar notes about terrorists crossing his state's border from Mexico. GOP Rep. Tom Cotton, who is running for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed Tuesday that extremists were actively collaborating with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate the U.S. border and attack Arkansans.

Asked for comment on Wednesday, a spokesman for Hunter said the information came for a "high level source" and that DHS was "actively discouraging any talk of IS on the border."

"The Congressman was conveying what he knows—and what he was told," Hunter spokesman Joe Kasper told The Huffington Post. "And as for DHS’ statement, 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. No surprise there."

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A Republican Congressman made statements that have no basis in fact whatsoever? I am shocked!

[Póg mo 1,749]

Let me guess, they're also infected with Ebola? Quick buy guns and get ready for the apocalypse. Thanks Obama.

[GBCW 397]

Obama is Ebola. Had anyone ever read Dinesh D'Souza's books, they'd have known that.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Obama is Ebola. Had anyone ever read Dinesh D'Souza's books, they'd have known that.

[Pooky 3,343]

You want conspiracy theories? Think Bill Gates' worst crime against humanity is Windows Vista?

Try this one for size ...

The CDC, NIH & Bill Gates Own the Patents On Existing Ebola & Related Vaccines: Mandatory Vaccinations Are Near

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/09/17/the-cdc-nih-bill-gates-own-the-patents-on-existing-ebola-related-vaccines-mandatory-vaccinations-are-near/

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You want conspiracy theories? Think Bill Gates' worst crime against humanity is Windows Vista?

Try this one for size ...

I raise you the story that goes with the image above.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/517733-obama-is-infecting-christians-with-ebola-to-destroy-jesus-and-start-a-new-age-of-liberal-darkness/

[Pooky 3,343]

I raise you the story that goes with the image above.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/517733-obama-is-infecting-christians-with-ebola-to-destroy-jesus-and-start-a-new-age-of-liberal-darkness/

Ah, but your conspiracy is purely altruistic in its motivation, whereas mine is altogether Machiavellian, involving wholesale depopulation, combined with the profits that come from patenting Ebola itself.

[lostinblue 1,989]

https://www.scribd.com/doc/51237749/Ahmed-Dhakane-DOJ-Sentencing-Memorandum

Edited October 9, 2014 by lostinblue

[JohnR! 5,495]

If this were true he would be branded as a RINO.

No GOP representative would admit that Obama caught ISIS illegals trying to cross into the US, without suffering the consequences.

The Teaparty Bullies would brand his as a traitor.

Edited October 9, 2014 by JohnR!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

https://www.scribd.com/doc/51237749/Ahmed-Dhakane-DOJ-Sentencing-Memorandum

And this 2010 sentencing memorandum is related to this thread how?