Dem: McCarthy ‘Wrong Or Lying’ About Terrorist Watch List Members Crossing Border

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on Monday night pushed back against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) doomsday portrayal of the new arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border.


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The GOP leader did not offer evidence of those alleged border crossings.

Posted without further comment.

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McCarthy’s wrong, lying, bullshitting and prevaricating. But you can have a hearing to expose him if you want. Could be fun.

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Maybe Kevin heard something about all the terrorists along the border and just assumed they were from scary Islamic countries?

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It can be both, you know. He’s not real fussy about being correct or honest.

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During House Republicans’ visit to the border on Monday, McCarthy claimed that agents at the border are finding “people on the terrorist watch list” from Yemen, Iran, and Turkey who are “rushing in all at once.”

The GOP leader did not offer evidence of those alleged border crossings. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not respond to TPM’s request for confirmation of McCarthy’s claims at the time of writing.

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This is why we have to crack down on immigration.

As January 6th shows, we have plenty of dedicated and talented domestic terrorists to cover all the terrorism we need, don’t need Amal the Butcher of Baghdad importing some lesser-quality foreign shit.

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OT Yaphet Kotto (“Ash is a goddam robot!”) has died at 81. RIP.

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Hey, one slightly less than lilly-white skin tone looks like every other one, right? Easy mistake to make.

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It’s unusual that he’s actually using the word “liar” when they usually use “inaccurate” or “not true.”

Not that I have a problem with people calling a liar a liar.

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And McCarthy says they’re “rushing in all a once”

What an ass…trying to inspire visions of a crush of humanity surging past the Border guards.

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agents at the border are finding “people on the terrorist watch list” from Yemen, Iran, and Turkey who are “rushing in all at once.”

So Biden is doing stellar work capturing “people on the terrorist watch list.” What’s wrong with that?

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Oh man. Lt. Al “G” Giardello. He was a blowtorch on that screen, you couldn’t take your eyes off him.

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I understand that many of the illegal border crossers are also COMMUNISTS!

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Who’d have thought that Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua hosted such large communities of Yemeni, Iranian and Turkish terrorist children who spoke fluent Spanish!

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."… Pretty sure he is either wrong or lying.”
My money is on lying.

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It’s like how antifa cleverly dressed as inbred rednecks at the Capitol.

The enemy is good like that.

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Soros plays the long game.

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And <gasp> CATHOLICS!

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