When President Trump signed the Muslim ban executive order in early 2017, we looked into several exaggerated claims by Trump and other administration officials about foreigners convicted of terrorism.

This claim from Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress is relevant again. It is now the basis of an Aug. 11, 2017, Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the federal government over the administration’s refusal to disclose information relevant to this claim.

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The list does not include domestic terrorism (such as the Charlottesville attack). “If you exclude all convictions for ‘domestic terrorism’ at the outset, how can you draw any overall conclusions on the citizenship status or national origin of those convicted of terrorism?” wrote Shirin Sinnar, an associate professor at Stanford Law School, who obtained and analyzed a more updated version of the list from the DOJ National Security Division through a Freedom of Information Act request.