Texas official on CBP catching 23 known or suspected terrorists: 'Serious implications to national security'

A Texas official is warning there are 'serious' national security implications after documents reveal 23 known or suspected terrorists were caught at the border last year

CHRISTOPHER OLIVAREZ: 23 potential terrorists were actually apprehended. That just goes to show you, though, 23 that were actually caught. So we talk about that gotaways just for this fiscal year alone, over 300,000 gotaways, and that's based off any type of sensors, cameras or even shoe tracks or footprints that are left behind where the agents actually go out in the field and are able to identify and confirm what they're seeing. But again, that doesn't give you a definite number of how many people are in that group, so the number of 300,000 known gotaways is much higher. And also, you've got to take into account the unknown gotoways to get by undetected. These are individuals that are wearing camouflage clothing, the worrisome type of fabric or carpeting on their shoes to avoid leaving some type of shoe tracks because they're trying to circumvent the checkpoints… so this has serious implications to national security when we talk about potential terrorists that are crossing our borders.

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