Alan Gomez:

Not that his administration can point to as of yet.

We have been asking the Department of Homeland Security ever since he started making those claims in a series of tweets where the proof was that there were members of gangs, criminals, as he refers to them generally as Middle Easterners, in the group, and they haven't been able to point to any examples or any proof that anybody exists.

Instead, what they're doing is they're falling back is, they're falling back on percentages. They have been passing out data of the number of criminals, gang members and people from — quote — "special interest countries" who have been caught trying to cross the border illegally over the past year.

When you put those numbers into context, it shows that about 5 percent of people caught along the border are — have some kind of criminal background. About 0.3 percent are gang members, and about 0.8 percent come from special interest countries that include some Middle Eastern countries.

But — so, they're saying the numbers indicate that there has to be in that group. And Vice President Pence made that same claim that, if you look at the size of this, there just has to be some of those folks in there.

In the last hour, we have heard from the Department of Homeland Security that they are confirming that there are some criminals and some Middle Easterners in there. We followed up with them, but haven't heard anything back.