The White House says 4,000 suspected terrorists were stopped at the southern border last year. That's almost certainly untrue.

Handcuffs hang on the back of a border patrol van.
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The numbers are in, and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is way off.

On Sunday, Sanders told Fox News' Chris Wallace that "nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists" have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, presumably annually. But Customs and Border Protection data shows only six people on the terrorist watch list tried to cross in the first half of fiscal year 2018, NBC News reports.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.