There is no reason why his claim couldn’t be true. Nor is there any reason why other ISIS operatives could not be making their way to the U.S. Southern border now.

“Guatemalan president boasts about catching 100 ISIS operatives as his country lays in turmoil amid thousands fleeing towards the US border,” Dailymail.com, October 20, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales boasted on Thursday that under his guidance, security detail has been able to capture almost 100 ISIS terrorist.

Morales shared the news while giving a speech at the second Conference for Prosperity and Security in Central America in Washington D.C. on October 11 and 12.

The president claimed that his administration has captured ‘close to 100 people completely linked to terrorist issues, with ISIS and that not only have we arrested them within our territory, but they have been deported to their countries of origin.’

Secretary of Social Communication for the Presidency, Alfredo Brito, added that the additional data on the captures was ‘protected information of National Security,’ Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre reported.

Brito asserted that the president mentioned the news ‘because it is a work in coordination with the different intelligence and security agencies.’

Secretary of Stategic Intelligence, Mario Duarte, reaffirmed that ‘the individuals intercepted, detained, prosecuted or returned to their country of origin, is close to 100.’

While Duarte alluded that info pertaining to the arrest were confidential, he did point to a 2016 incident where ‘several citizens of Syrian origin who were detained with false documents were detained, for which they were prosecuted and subjected to criminal proceedings.’ Those people were said to have been deported.

Both Duarte and Morales pointed to the coordinated work ‘with several intelligence and security agencies of the world’ as the reason why so many of the people have been detained….