Report: 99 terror watch-listers crossed the U.S. border
House Judiciary issued the report this week
A report issued by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Republicans shows that at least 99 individuals on the terror watchlist that illegally crossed the U.S. southern border between fiscal years 2021-2023 were released into the U.S. interior.
The 99 is out of 375 total. And those are just the ones we know about, per Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.
From the report's introduction:
The open-borders policies of President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the United States, including terrorist organizations and other bad actors looking to harm Americans.
In three-and-a-half years, the Biden-Harris Administration has released more than 5.4 million illegal aliens into the United States, with an additional at least 1.9 million known “gotaways” escaping into the country. Among those more than 7.3 million illegal aliens are 375 illegal aliens on the U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist who have been apprehended by Border Patrol under President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’s watch. That is a more than 3,000 percent increase of watchlisted alien encounters compared to all four years of the Trump Administration.
Key Section of the report:
But there’s more. Here are the key sections.
"So far during fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol has encountered tens of thousands of illegal aliens nationwide from countries that could present national security risks, including 2,134 Afghan nationals, 33,347 Chinese nationals, 541 Iranian nationals, 520 Syrian nationals, and 3,104 Uzbek nationals."
"Of the eight Tajik nationals with potential ISIS ties that ICE arrested in June 2024, three were released into the country after using the Biden-Harris-Administration’s CBP One phone application to schedule an appointment at a port of entry, four were initially encountered by Border Patrol while crossing the border, and one arrived at a port of entry without scheduling a CBP One app appointment."
"Just last year, however, Secretary Mayorkas boasted about the vetting capabilities through the CBP One app, claiming the app “[a]llows [DHS] to screen and vet individuals before they arrive at our border.”
This gets more terrifying - judges are releasing these individuals.
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The report goes on to describe warnings from FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“[T]here has been a lot of focus on the number of known or suspected terrorists encountered at the border. And that number has increased over the last five or six years, and that should be of concern,” Wray said in testimony to Congress. “But frankly, to me, the bigger concern is individuals who weren’t, either weren’t on the [terrorist] watchlist at the time they came in because there wasn’t information known yet that ties them to terrorism, and it is only after they get in that some new piece of information develops somewhere overseas and now we know. That is a bigger concern.”
The report goes on to list ICE arrests of concern, directly tied to the terror watchlist issue as well as an ISIS smuggling operation. None of this apparently was a big deal to DHS, these are just folks wanting a better life, according to the report:
“Reportedly, DHS found “no information in any of the intelligence community’s databases that raised any red flags and the people were all released into the US pending a court date.” Officials even sought to split hairs about the aliens’ connection with terrorists, claiming that one ISIS sympathizer associated with the smuggling ring was merely an “independent contractor.” According to reports, officials also maintained the illegal border crossers were likely just “seeking a better life.”
Deeper in the report, it's stated the Biden administration has no idea where these people are.
"Once aliens are released, DHS has no idea where the aliens go. According to the OIG, Border Patrol “cannot always obtain and does not always record migrant addresses, and ICE does not always validate migrant addresses prior to migrant release into the United States.”
Moreover, “[w]hen migrants do not check in, ICE cannot ensure the migrant understands the next steps in the immigration process and cannot easily locate migrants who may be threats to public safety or are scheduled for removal.”
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