“Hundreds of people on our terrorist watch list are crossing our borders.”
What Washington Post found
Scott framed this as happening on the southern border but most encounters -- which were not crossings -- were on the northern border
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tim Scott (Senator (R-S.C.)) made this claim around 22 May 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 May 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Tim Scott has 15 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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