“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.”
James Lankford
U.S. Senator. TV interview. Claim dated 28 Jan 2024.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading
What FactCheck.org found
"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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
James Lankford (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 28 January 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 February 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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