A report by the Center on National Security at Fordham University has revealed that the majority of Islamic State group-linked suspects charged in the U.S. are American citizens.

The data published this week reveals that 55 of the individuals charged with terrorist involvement (80 percent) are U.S. citizens, with 44 of those born in the U.S. Of the remaining suspects, six suspects were born in Bosnia, four in Uzbekistan, three in Somalia and two in Sudan. Fifty-eight of the people indicted for suspected Islamic State group ties those polled were male, and only 10 were women.

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Karen Greenberg, director of the center, described the anti-migrant stance of many politicians in the U.S. as “misguided,” as the majority of those seeking refuge in the U.S. do not have ties with the Islamic State group.

“We have tremendous border controls in this country. We’ve spent 14 years and almost a trillion dollars on our security industry. We’re pretty good at vetting them, despite what Marco Rubio says,” Greenberg said.

The report comes at a time of growing animosity towards the Syrian migrants who have descended on Europe since the Syrian civil war began. Many suspect that a number of the migrants have sympathies with terrorist organizations and had involvement in the Paris attacks of last week.

However, the data suggests that only three of those indicted in connection with the Islamic State group in the U.S. was a refugee or asylum seeker, none of which came from Syria.

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