{"id":392188,"date":"2019-01-09T10:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-govt-data-contradict-trumps-border-security-claim\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T09:02:32","slug":"presstv-us-govt-data-contradict-trumps-border-security-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-govt-data-contradict-trumps-border-security-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US govt. data contradict Trump\u2019s border security claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US government\u2019s assessments contradict President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that terrorists enter the country through its border with Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Counterterrorism officials and experts also say there has never been a case of a known terrorist crossing into the US through its southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who addressed the nation in a televised speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, described the situation along the country\u2019s border with Mexico as a &#8220;growing crisis,&#8221; reiterating his call for funding a wall that he claimed was &#8220;absolutely critical to border security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, a White House strategy document sent to Congress last month to outline measures to monitor terrorists did not include any reference to the need for construction of barriers, fences or walls.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 assessment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was sent to Congress on Dec. 21, the day before the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/12\/22\/583598\/US-government-partially-shutdown-\">shutdown<\/a> began after Trump and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/09\/585272\/US-Donald-Trump-border-security\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government\u2019s assessments contradict President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that terrorists enter the country through its border with Mexico. Counterterrorism officials and experts also say there has never been a case of a known terrorist crossing into the US through its southern border. Trump, who addressed the nation in a televised speech from the Oval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}