Trump’s claim terrorists are pouring over southern border does not stand up to scrutiny

(CNN) —& At a& Fox News town hall on Wednesday, former President& Donald Trump& previewed some of the themes that we will likely hear more from him on the campaign trail and during his September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.Discussing the US southern border, Trump asserted that& “more terrorists have come into the United States in the last three years. And I think probably 50 years.”As we approach the 23rd& anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this seems like an odd claim to make when 19 Arab hijackers, none of whom had crossed the southern border into the US,& killed almost 3,000 people, the vast majority of them in Trump’s hometown of New York City.And if it were really the case that jihadist terrorists were pouring across America’s southern border during the past three years as Trump claimed,& wouldn’t there have been, you know, some terrorist attacks in the US as a result?& & Or, at the very least, a lot more terrorists being arrested in the US during that same time frame?In fact, there have been no& reported& terrorist attacks in the US during the past three years carried out by jihadist terrorists crossing the southern border.Indeed, the...