Rubio told Tapper there are \u201c700,000 Americans on some watch list or another,\u201d but the number is actually in the tens of thousands. The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), the federal government\u2019s central repository of known and suspected international terrorists, had 1.1 million entries as of December 2013, but only 25,000 were American citizens or lawful permanent residents. The FBI\u2019s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), commonly referred to as the terrorist watch list, had 800,000 entries in September 2014, but only 40,000 were U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.<\/p>\n
Come fly with me<\/p>\n
Several Republican presidential candidates cite Ted Kennedy as a reason why they oppose President Obama\u2019s proposal to block the sale of guns to known or suspected terrorists on the no-fly list. Kennedy was mistakenly placed on the government\u2019s no-fly list, they say. But the Transportation Security Administration calls that a \u201cmyth.\u201d It has been reported many times that Kennedy had trouble boarding planes several times in 2004 allegedly because he was on a no-fly list. But the TSA in 2008 said the former Democratic senator from Massachusetts was \u201cNOT on the no-fly or selectee lists.\u201d Kennedy was \u201cmisidentified\u201d as someone on the \u201cselectee list.\u201d Those on the selectee list \u201cmust undergo additional security screening before being permitted to board.\u201d Kennedy ultimately boarded his flights and didn\u2019t miss any flights.<\/p>\n
Deport me<\/p>\n
A Democratic super PAC claims that Republican candidates for president are \u201call on the same page\u201d with Donald Trump. But the ad invites a false conclusion that both Marco Rubio and Trump favor deporting millions of immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal permission. The ad then juxtaposes video clips of some of Trump\u2019s comments with snippets from three leading Republican candidates: Rubio, Ben Carson and Sen. Ted Cruz. Trump and Cruz are both shown opposing granting birthright U.S. citizenship. Carson is shown saying he\u2019s opposed to a Muslim becoming president, after Trump is shown saying he wouldn\u2019t allow Muslims to enter the country. There\u2019s a big gap between deporting millions of people who have been here for years, as Trump says he would do, and deporting \u201csome people\u201d who are criminals, recent arrivals and those overstaying visas, as Rubio proposes. In fact, convicted criminals, terrorism threats and those who recently crossed the border are currently being targeted for deportation even under the Obama administration\u2019s scaled-back enforcement policy. So Rubio is closer to being \u201con the same page\u201d with Obama than with Trump on this issue.<\/p>\n
Chip Tuthill is a longtime resident of Mancos. Website used for this column: www.factcheck.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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