FBI director visits El Paso, says reports of ISIS camp across border are ‘nonsense’

The director of the FBI was in the Borderland Wednesday, visiting the El Paso field offices for the second time in his tenure.

Director James Comey met with local law enforcement leaders from across the region. He talked about the Islamic State, or ISIL as the FBI calls it, and the threat it poses around the world. He specifically addressed the rumored threat across the border from El Paso.

“I know since there’s been a lot of attention to this in the media that has reached my eyes and ears in Washington,” Comey said. “The media reports on if there is an ISIL camp across the border here in El Paso? Nonsense. Not true. It frustrates me a little bit because my folks have to run out such things, because we do run out every tip to make sure there isn’t something to it. There is nothing to it.”

Comey also discussed FBI work along with other agencies on public corruption and human trafficking in our region and nationally.