<p>House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> sparred with CNN anchor Jake Tapper during a Wednesday afternoon segment addressing the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and record-breaking number of illegal immigrants flowing across it on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Johnson began by rattling off a series of numbers — the number of people who have come across the border, the number of &#8220;known gotaways,&#8221; and the number who may have crossed the border without being apprehended. It wasn&#8217;t until he got to reports of terrorists crossing the border that Tapper pushed back.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: Over 300 known terrorists apprehended at the border </p>
<p>JAKE TAPPER: There aren&#39;t hundreds of known terrorists getting into the country <a href="https://t.co/OupsyawGAX">pic.twitter.com/OupsyawGAX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1742662129910489347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Jake, seven million people have come into the country since Biden walked into the Oval Office,&#8221; Johnson said from Eagle Pass, Texas. &#8220;And that&#8217;s a low estimate &#8212; most people believe it may be twice that high. We have nearly two million &#8216;gotaways&#8217; that we know about, not to mention those who evaded capture.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Over 300 known terrorists apprehended at the border, trying to come in,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know how many evaded capture and detection — they&#8217;re in the country, potentially setting up terrorist cells everywhere. Fentanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans aged 18-49, flowing over the border like an open sewer.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Human trafficking is the number one business of the cartels here,&#8221; Johnson added, noting that cartels were raking in billions of dollars — &#8220;$32 million a week,&#8221; according to a local sheriff — trafficking people across the border, and President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration was doing nothing to even slow them down.</p>
<p>Johnson suggested that there were a number of options Biden could implement, from executive orders to the reinstatement of the &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy and the end of &#8220;catch and release,&#8221; that could help to stem the tide — but noted that so far, he did not seem interested.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, just one note on the terrorist thing,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;There aren&#8217;t hundreds of known terrorists getting into the country, there are people whose identity have been flagged on a certain database, I just don&#8217;t want people out there thinking that there are, you know, 200 members of Hamas have flown into the country and we don&#8217;t even know about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>What Tapper did not mention was the fact that the &#8220;certain database&#8221; he referenced has an official name: the Terrorist Screening Database — which is commonly referred to as the &#8220;Terror Watch List.&#8221;</p>
<p>And while it is true that no one can definitively say that everyone on that list <strong><em>is</em></strong><strong> </strong>a terrorist, it is also not possible to say for sure that anyone on that list is <strong><em>not</em></strong> a terrorist without proper vetting — something that most can agree is not happening at the southern border.</p>

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