Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has twice declared the discovery of “prayer rugs” on the Texas side of the border with Mexico and suggested that members of the Islamic State group have possibly sneaked in.
At the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., Dewhurst described suspicions of an impending invasion of terrorists crossing the Rio Grande. As a sign, he said, “prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush.”
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David Dewhurst
Statement: “Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush.”
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