Rick Perry Says Terrorists Could Be Entering U.S. Along Mexico Border [View all]
Source: New York Times
Rick Perry Says Terrorists Could Be Entering U.S. Along Mexico Border
By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN
AUG. 21, 2014
WASHINGTON — Gov. Rick Perry, Republican of Texas, on Thursday raised the “very real possibility” that individuals affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups have already slipped across the border as he made the case that border security was a pressing national security issue.
While Mr. Perry said that there was “no clear evidence” recruits from terrorist organizations had entered the United States illegally, he pointed to the number of violent crimes committed in recent years by illegal immigrants.
“I think there is the obvious, great concern that — because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of not being secure and us not knowing who is penetrating across — that individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states could be,” he said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation.
The speech came after Mr. Perry pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of abusing his power on Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury last Friday, making him the first Texas governor to face criminal charges in nearly a century. Perry has called the charges a farce and is contemplating a second run for the Republican presidential nomination. He is scheduled to appear in New Hampshire this weekend.
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