re: #403 Gus

A sheriff of a county that’s hundreds of miles from the border. From the article:

Painter noted that “Muslim” items have been strewn along the border and estimated that 10 to 15 million “undocumented aliens” have crossed the border.

“I think it’d be naive to say that (ISIS is) not here…We have found Muslim clothing, they have found Quran books that are lying on the side of the trail, so we know that there are Muslims that have come across and are being smuggled into the United States,” Painter told Fox News.

I had searched for koran, not the other spellings. It’s in there.

The problem is that it is anecdotal. He didn’t find anything. He’s probably relying on the same Fox News reports that claimed to find Muslim prayer rugs that turned out to be soccer gear.

What I think is going on is that some of these people think the border security/immigration issue is the most important issue above all others, so they’ll throw everything and the kitchen sink into the argument, including the potential that terrorists would cross into the country from Mexico, all in the hopes that the fear/threat would get more funding.