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Rep. Clay Higgins says he’s going after FBI for putting Trump supporters on Watchlist

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Important Takeaways:

  • They’re Going Down’: Rep Clay Higgins Insists He’s Going After FBI Agents Who Put Trump Supporters On Terror Watchlist After January 6th
  • Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA) claims that FBI agents pursued Trump supporters relentlessly following the events of January 6th, even placing them on a domestic terror watchlist.
  • Higgins’ revelations surfaced in an interview with investigative journalist Lara Logan for her ‘Truth in Media’ series.
  • Logan has been posting videos documenting pieces of the January 6th protest at the Capitol to provide better overall context to the events that took place.
  • Higgins, who has confronted FBI Director Christopher Wray on multiple occasions over the bureau’s role in the riot, was her most recent guest.
  • Perhaps the most captivating of Higgins’ claims involves Trump supporters allegedly being placed on a terror watchlist.
  • The Louisiana lawmaker suggested that a letter sent from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to DHS was the catalyst for “an executive action by the TSA to use its authority to instruct America’s air marshals to track and follow Trump supporters that have been charged with no crime.”
  • “They were guilty only of arriving by air into DC on January 4th, 5th or 6th, and those manifests were turned over to the FBI,” he continued. “The FBI went through those manifests and every American that they identified … as a Trump supporter that was on those manifests was added to the FBI’s suspected domestic terrorist watchlist.”
  • Higgins told Logan that the efforts by the TSA and air marshals to track the movements of Trump supporters are “still happening” today

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U.S. arrested two Yemenis on terror watchlist who tried to cross border from Mexico

By Ted Hesson and Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. border agents in recent months arrested two Yemeni men on a terror watchlist in separate incidents as they crossed the border with Mexico illegally, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Monday.

The men, arrested in January and March near a port of entry in California, were on a U.S. government watchlist for terrorism suspects and a “no-fly” list, CBP said in a press release.

A group of Republican lawmakers that visited the border in El Paso, Texas, in March said border agents told them during the trip that some people caught crossing the border were on a U.S. terrorism watchlist. Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden for easing some restrictions put in place by former President Donald Trump as the number of border crossings has risen in recent months.

One of the men, aged 33, was arrested on Jan. 29 after allegedly attempting to cross the border illegally near a port of entry in Calexico, California, CBP said.

Border agents found a mobile phone SIM card located beneath the insole of the man’s shoe, the agency said.

The second man, aged 26, was arrested on March 30 in the same vicinity.

A CBP spokesman said in a written statement that it is “very uncommon” for border agents to encounter people suspected of terrorism at U.S. borders, but that the arrests underscore the agency’s “critical” vetting efforts.

The agency did not provide the names of the men.

The watchlist is maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Terrorism Screening Center. The list contains “the identities of those who are known or reasonably suspected of being involved in terrorist activities,” according to the FBI.

(Reporting by Ted Hesson and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Matthew Lewis)