‘Special interest alien’ designation is based largely on a person's country of origin, experts say

Illegal immigration is a frequent focus on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show "The Ingraham Angle," and one of the show’s contributors recently offered data that he claimed showed the safety risks behind it.

"People underestimate the danger of this, Laura," Raymond Arroyo said Sept. 6. He claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "just arrested" more than 300 migrants with criminal records "and 75,000 illegals have now been named national security threats by Border Patrol."

We wondered about Arroyo’s source for the number of people deemed national security threats, so...