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Kash Patel: “We're on par right now with about known or suspected…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel

Published | Video Starts at 1:20:09

And just to highlight for you the known or suspected terrorist statistics in entering this country illegally last year was about 350. The overwhelming majority of them came in from the northern border. This year. We're on par right now with about known or suspected terrorists entering the country from the northern southern border. And it's about 45 each. So it's not just drugs that are coming in, but it's those looking to do harm on our way of life. How do we counter that? (1:20:09–1:20:16)

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Asserts that about 45 known or suspected terrorists have entered from both the northern and southern borders this year.

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