1/I worked on Obama's DHS Human Smuggling Cell, we regularly documented migrants transiting up the southwest smuggling corridor to the US from countries with terror ties. ISSUE: if they have never been encountered by the IC or LE, how can you tell they have no terror ties?
2/These migrants may have legitimate documents, may have a great "cover" story, but if the intel community or law enforcement can't tie them to any records, then they can claim asylum (be detained or released) and see a immigration judge.
3/Most discussion of the southwest border is from critics that do not grasp the border reality; it is a smuggling/trafficking highway for billions$ & billions$ a year in illicit business. Criminals, cartels, smugglers, want open borders.
2/ The process is inherently broken BUT there is a reason that most unaccompanied & accompanied kids are being sent to @HHSGov ORR contracted facilities. The kids can and were paired with adults to be smuggled...
3/ in Early FEB 2016 @ChuckGrassley states this in his opening statement (using my #whistleblower information) that "unaccompanied minors were being smuggled into the United States with adults".