what Mr. Trump said

the facts

This lacks evidence.

There is no evidence that “unknown Middle Easterners” have infiltrated the migrant caravan heading toward the United States’ southern border. Reporters with The New York Times and other news media outlets traveling with the caravan say they have not seen any Middle Easterners in the group. No government agency has confirmed Mr. Trump’s claim.

“Trump said there are terrorists here,” said Irineo Mujica, the director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a transnational group that has organized the caravans for years. “Does he mean women? Children? The bombs must be diapers.”

Mr. Trump’s tweet came soon after a “Fox & Friends” segment in which Pete Hegseth, a co-host, cited a claim from the president of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, that his government had arrested “over 100 ISIS fighters.” Mr. Hegseth floated the possibility that terrorists could have infiltrated the caravan. Asked by a co-host whether he was sure that was true, Mr. Hegseth conceded that “it hasn’t been verified.”

This month, Mr. Morales said at a conference in Washington that Guatemala had arrested “almost 100 people highly linked to terrorist groups, specifically ISIS” and “they have also been deported to their countries of origin.”