The man accused of taking hostages in a Texas synagogue over the weekend was screened before entering the United States, but the screenings raised no red flags, according to the White House.
“Our understanding—and, obviously, we’re still looking into this—is that he was checked against U.S. government databases multiple times prior to entering the country, and the U.S. government did not have any derogatory information about the individual in our systems at the time of entry,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington on Jan. 18.
