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James Lankford, U.S. Senator

“Just in the past four months, we’ve had tens of thousands of people that came across our border that were identified as a national security risk.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: "Special Interest Aliens" are migrants that the DHS defined in 2019 as non-Americans who "potentially" pose a “national security risk” to the U.S. based primarily on their travel or country of origin.