Trump and the GOP Were Hardly the First to Worry About "Special Interest Alien" Smuggling to the Southwest
By Todd Bensman on January 9, 2019
Much of the noise accompanying President Trump's partial justification for a wall concerns the veracity of a general threat: that Islamist terror travelers in the flow of "special interest aliens" (SIAs) might easier breach the southern border without one.
Critics in the media and among Democratic members of Congress argue with vehemence that the administration is trafficking in ridiculous, baseless fear-mongering.
Well if that's the case, how would these skeptics explain away the fully committed belief in this special interest aliens threat by President Barack Obama's DHS Secretary, in 2016? As CIS first disclosed in September 2018, Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson was a stout believer in the threat posed by migrants from the Middle East, South Asia, and the Horn Africa who were streaming through Latin America and reaching the American southern border.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Trump-and-GOP-Were-Hardly-First-Worry-About-Special-Interest-Alien-Smuggling-Southwest
