MESOP : “PKK” MEMBERS ENTER UNITED STATES VIA MEXICO ?

October 9, 2014 6:19 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Homeland Security chief on Thursday presented evidence countering statements from conservative lawmakers that members of the Islamic State, which is the target of a U.S.-led air campaign in Iraq and Syria, had been caught entering America.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said four members of a Kurdish group that opposes Islamic State were arrested last month trying to enter the United States illegally from Mexico. He said investigators had determined the four were members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK.

Johnson noted that the PKK was “actually fighting against ISIL and defended Kurdish territory in Iraq.” They would be deported by U.S. authorities, he said in a speech in Washington.  (Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Julia Edwards in Washington; editing by John Whitesides, Bernard Orr) http://news.yahoo.com/four-anti-islamic-state-kurds-arrested-entering-u-215458293.html