Rolling Stone Headline A Killer

Trump Administration Won’t Stop Lying About Terrorism and Immigration. That’s the Rolling Stone headline. Nice.

The article focuses Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ assertion that, in the last year, the DHS made some 4,000 arrests on terrorism grounds of people “that came across our southern border.”

Here’s the RS fact check:

• In FY 2017, only 335 individuals were stopped at land ports on terrorism grounds.
• There’s reason to believe the stops “probably occurred because the person traveling matched a name on the terrorist watch list.”
• The State Department has said that there are “no known international terrorist organizations operating in Mexico, no evidence that any terrorist group has targeted U.S. citizens in Mexican territory, and no credible information that any member of a terrorist group has traveled through Mexico to gain access to the United States.”

-KitJ