The GOP hunt for unicorns continues as only the southern border seems to leak Middle Eastern terrorists (not). This fiction was floated during the “caravan” scare pimped during the midterm election, and is a continuation of the “Muslim Ban” from the first month of the Trump regime.
“Sir Lanka” (whoever he is), is the origin of terrorists, even if they’ve decided to take a detour through Mexico, says the GOP leader, because you shouldn’t think there are a plethora of RW domestic terrorists who are the real threat to America.
We know Kevin McCarthy’s more like his forebear Charlie, but he unashamedly repeats tropes left over from prior decades because the GQP’s got nothing important for you to fear.
As usual the GOP thinks you shouldn’t pay attention to the hundreds of domestic terrorist insurrectionists being prosecuted from the 1/6 DC attack.
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021 · 10:38:00 PM +00:00 · annieli
On the heels of President Joe Biden signing a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill that’s very popular with the American public, if not with GOP members of Congress, Republicans have developed a new line of attack: that the president is not only turning a blind eye to a crisis at the US-Mexico border created by his efforts to roll back Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies, but that Biden is ignoring a possible terror threat.
To hammer this home, a group of House Republicans led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) traveled to the southern border on Monday and held a press event where McCarthy made a scary claim.
Citing a conversation he had with Border Patrol agents, McCarthy said recent migrants are “not just people from Mexico or Honduras or El Salvador. They’re now finding people from Yemen, Iran, Turkey. People on the terrorist watch list they are catching, and they’re rushing in all at once.”
McCarthy’s trying to get people to believe that Biden is asleep at the wheel as terrorists infiltrate the country.
There’s just one problem. There’s no evidence it’s true.
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