A new report revealed 99 illegal immigrants who are on the terrorist watch list have been released into the U.S. during the first three years of Joe Biden’s administration.
Border patrol has encountered as many as 250 during that time period, including from places with an active terrorist presence like Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Pakistan, Turkey, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Mauritania and Yemen.
The report, put out by the House Judiciary Committee, found that tens of thousands of nationals from countries that could present national security risks had been encountered, including 2,134 Afghans, 33,347 Chinese, 541 Iranians. 520 Syrians and 3,104 Uzbeks.
The report cited information provided to the committee staff from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in June.
‘That does not include the untold numbers of potential terrorists that evaded Border Patrol to enter the United States as part of nearly 2 million ‘gotaways’ since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration,’ the report went on.
In June eight Tajikistan nationals with potential ties to ISIS were arrested in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in a coordinated sting by law enforcement.
The FBI’s joint terrorism task force ‘began monitoring the eight as part of an investigation into ‘a potential terrorist threat originating in central Europe.’
Three of them had entered the U.S. after booking asylum appointments on the CBP One phone application, three had been encountered by Border Patrol while crossing the border and another arrived at a part without scheduling an asylum appointment.
Republicans have issued dire warnings about about the threat potential of an overwhelmed border that can’t be counted on to keep would-be terrorists out. Biden has insisted it would take an act of Congress to secure the nation’s border.
The U.S. has encountered 1.8 million crossings in fiscal year 2024 through June. Numbers ticked down to 130,000 in June from a record high of 301,000 in December.
Conservatives insist he has the executive power to do so – and allowed a bipartisan immigration bill to die out earlier this year over concerns it did not go far enough.
Also in June it was revealed that US agents are racing to round up over 400 immigrants who were smuggled into the U.S. through the border by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network from Central Asia and are considered ‘subjects of concern.’
The migrants crossed the southern border, and although they were vetted by US Border Patrol during entry, they could not be detained at the time since they were not on the government’s terrorism watchlist, according to NBC News.
At the time the story broke, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had already arrested 150 of the 400 migrants.
However, the location of 50 of them was totally unknown to US authorities.
The over 400 migrants are believed to be from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Russia.
Those nations have well-established connections to ISIS and its offshoot, ISIS-K.