Members of Congress have publicly expressed concerns about how Tawhedi was allowed into the country, including Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who wrote a letter late last week to FBI Director Christopher Wray citing earlier reporting by Just the News on Tawhedi’s parole status.
Attoev is now in custody in Pennsylvania, and is waiting for an immigration trial in New Jersey. Lawyers for ICE are expected to argue that Attoev needs to remain in custody in order to get more information on his alleged ties to ISIS.
This fiscal year, as of March 22, 210 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S., according to CBP data.
For Biden, rewarding terrorists is a matter of policy. If this administration, for instance, had explicitly promised to help Iran enhance its position in the Middle East, what would it have done differently?
Several days ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seized illegal immigrants carrying with them improvised explosive devices that Mr. Barrasso said were the “size of cannonballs” and were “tailor-made for terrorism.”
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, must disclose the total number of so-called “special interest aliens” released into the United States over the last two years, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
“What’s happening is the greatest national security threat since 9/11,” former U.S. official warns.
“Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.”
So says the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The same webpage that makes this declaration includes a table that provides some relevant data for the fiscal years from 2017 to 2023. It lists how many individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (commonly known as the “terrorist watchlist”) were encountered by the Border Patrol as they were trying to illegally sneak into the United States between the ports of entry on our southern border.
The past year set records at the border for all the wrong reasons. While the 2022 official numbers have not been released, it appears a record number of illegal aliens crossed the U.S. border. During the last fiscal year (October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022) Border Patrol apprehended more than 2.7 million aliens crossing the U.S. border illegally and a record 98 suspected terrorists (another record).
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