Trump: 'No Proof' of Middle Easterners in Migrant Caravan [View all]

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Source: The Daily Beast

President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he has "no proof" people from the Middle East are traveling in the migrant caravan from Honduras, as he's previously claimed. "There's no proof of anything. But there could very well be," he told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday. Trump also said he'd recently spoken to Border Patrol officials and claimed they have "intercepted ISIS" before. Earlier, Vice President Mike Pence had insisted that it "is inconceivable that there would not be individuals from the Middle East as a part of this growing caravan." Pence told reporters in the Oval Office that President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernndez told him the migrant caravan "was organized by leftist organizations and financed by Venezuela."

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Without proof, Mike Pence says it's 'inconceivable' that Trump is lying about Middle Easterners in caravan

DAVID EDWARDS
23 OCT 2018 AT 13:09 ET

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump's assertion that people from the Middle East are secretly traveling in a caravan headed through Mexico to the United States.

While speaking with journalist Robert Costa at a Washington Post event, Pence was asked about Trump's claim, which reporters have been unable to verify.

"Where is the evidence?" Costa asked.

"Well, it's inconceivable that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border," Pence argued with a shrug.

"Inconceivable?" Costa pressed.

"There are statistics on this," Pence insisted. "In the last fiscal year we apprehended 10 terrorists or suspected terrorists per day at our southern border -- from countries that are referred to as 'other than Mexico,'" the vice president said. "That means from the Middle East region."

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