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Migrants With Alleged Ties to ISIS Arrested
Last weekend, eight migrants from Tajikistan with possible ties to the terrorist group ISIS were arrested in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. All the men were able to cross the southern border into the US while their criminal background checks were clean. At least one of the immigrants used the CBP One app, which was created by the Biden administration to allow undocumented migrants to book appointments and claim asylum before reaching the border.
“A person can cross the border with a clean background or be from a country that doesn’t share criminal and terrorism information with our government,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital.
Since that type of information sharing has yet to happen, some officials are worried that we are being set up for another terrorist attack. “The 9/11 Commission called out some of these very same issues as reasons that led to the 9/11 terror attacks,” Ries added. “Biden has returned the U.S. to a pre-9/11 posture.”
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force had been monitoring the eight migrants, as well as others, due to a potential threat coming from Central Europe. Part of the investigation involved a wiretap which captured the individuals talking about bombs, according to a report from the New York Post. “Remember the Boston Marathon [bombing]? I’m afraid something like that might happen again or worse,” a source told the outlet.
Officials have been warning about potential terrorist attacks due to open border policies. In February, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) even pointed to Central Asia, where Tajikistan is located, as a possible origin for terrorists. He said a “high-level individual” told him that more than 50,000 Central Asians had crossed the border illegally last year and expressed that some of those people could be “part of sleeper cells for a possible terror attack on our soil.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that a coordinated attack like the one at a Russian concert hall earlier this year by the State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) was a possibility in the US. “Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” Wray warned. “But now, increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia concert hall a couple weeks ago.”
Wray also explained his fears at the time involving a human smuggling operation at the southern border that has ties to ISIS-affiliated groups. When asked about this by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the FBI director said:
“I want to be a little bit careful how far I can go in open session, but there is a particular network that, where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that we’re very concerned about and that we’ve been spending enormous amount of effort with our partners investigation.”
As Liberty Nation News pointed out in February, “agents have arrested more immigrants on the terrorist watchlist in just four months than they did for all of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 combined.” With the lack of shared information from certain areas – and with Border Patrol instructing agents to release migrants from more than 100 countries into the US – the terrorist threat will likely only continue to escalate.
While the eight men recently arrested have not yet been charged as terrorists, ICE has detained them and they face deportation proceedings. However, they could later face terrorism-related charges, NBC News reported.
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