Jordanian man allegedly fleeing ISIS detained at Mexican border

Meyhar said he a smuggler known as “El Raton” arranged for him to pay a second man known as “Tornado” to take him across the Mexico-Texas border.

Although Meyhar successfully crossed, he was apprehended shortly thereafter by Customs and Border Protection agents.

A CBP official referred a request for comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which did not immediately respond to the request. However, a CBP spokesperson did say that in fiscal year 2014, 12,816 immigrants at the nation’s various Points of Entry made either asylum claims or provided CBP agents with a potentially credible fear of return, both of which would put them into the asylum system.