President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is in charge of border control, have released at least 99 illegal immigrants who were on the FBI's terrorism watch list into the United States since 2021.
And since then, Border Patrol agents on the southwest border with Mexico have encountered about 400 suspects on the terrorism watch list.
The latest update on the illegal immigration infiltration backed by the Biden-Harris Administration is contained in a report released today by the House Judiciary Committee, which details how the administration is turning a blind eye to the serious threat that illegal immigration poses to America’s national security in general and to the American people in particular.
The administration has ignored the threat, allowing one illegal immigrant on a terror watch list to board the plane, releasing another because he was obese and feared he would contract the Chinese virus if detained, and an immigration judge has granted bail to about 30 terrorism suspects.
The report echoes concerns from 10 former FBI agents who told top elected officials on Capitol Hill in January that Biden was preparing the nation for a major terrorist attack.
Reports
The committee noted that Biden has released more than 5.4 million illegal immigrants and about 2 million more are “fugitives” who evaded the Border Patrol.
That included 375 suspects on terrorism watch lists, “resulting in more than a 3,000 percent increase in encounters with watch-listed aliens compared to the entire four years of the Trump administration,” according to the report.
Biden has released at least 99 of the 250 terrorism suspects he encountered between fiscal years 2021 and 2023.
The suspects come from 36 countries, “including countries with active terrorist activities, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen,” the report claims.
As The New American reported in June, the FBI arrested eight ISIS-linked terrorism suspects, all from Tajikistan, who were detained at the border after wiretaps revealed one of them discussing a bomb.
The committee report further noted:
Three were released into the country after using the Biden-Harris administration's CBP One phone app to make appointments at ports of entry, four were first encountered by Border Patrol on their way across the border, and one arrived at a port of entry without making an appointment through the CBP One app.
And in fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol agents encountered:
Afghans 2,134 Chinese 33,347 Iranians 541 Syrians 520 Uzbeks 3,104
Specific examples
Releasing terrorists is “almost routine” for Biden, according to the report, which noted that in April “ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) arrested a possible terrorist from Uzbekistan with 'suspected ties to ISIS' who had been living in the United States for more than two years.”
The Biden-Harris administration released a man named Jobohir Atouef to the United States in February 2022 because “neither CBP nor ICE found any adverse information regarding Atouef.” The Department of Homeland Security had released another watch-listed alien, Isam Bazi, who was found illegally crossing the Southwest border in November 2021. Despite “highly adverse information” in the FBI database, Homeland Security decided to release Bazi to the United States because he was overweight and may have been vulnerable to COVID-19 in ICE detention facilities. In July 2023 testimony, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified to the committee that he was “not aware of the report” and falsely claimed that “individuals who pose a threat to national security or public safety are being detained.” Secretary Mayorkas' statements are false, and DHS's border screening is insufficient to uncover damaging information about potentially dangerous aliens, as evidenced by the Department of Homeland Security's release of potential terrorists into the United States.
In February, federal authorities arrested another terrorism suspect, Mohammed Kalwin, who “had spent almost a year inside the United States” after being released by CBP in March 2023.
Astonishingly, an immigration judge ordered $12,000 bail for his release in March, but “he is believed to be a member of Hizb-e-Islami, a political and paramilitary group designated by the United States as a terrorist organization. He was rearrested after media reports about the case surfaced and remains in ICE custody.”
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official detailed the incident in an interview with the committee in May, the report explains.
The ICE official confirmed that Kerwin had been arrested by ICE and released after an immigration judge granted bail. The ICE official said that he had been briefed by agents, but that Kerwin was no longer in ICE custody. After the briefing, the field chief ordered agents to locate and arrest Kerwin, who remains at large in the community.
In fact, when “ICE prosecutors appeared in court” arguing that Kerwin should remain in ICE custody, “they did not provide the (immigration) judge with classified information that purportedly showed Kerwin's terrorist ties. Instead, ICE lawyers “argued that he should be held without bail because he is a flight risk, but did not say he is a national security risk.”
This lack of information may also explain why immigration judges have granted bail to at least 27 watch-listed aliens encountered between Southwest border ports of entry between fiscal years 2021 and 2023. Additionally, at least four watch-listed aliens have been granted asylum by immigration judges, and at least two more known or suspected terrorist cases have been closed by immigration judges, allowing them to remain in the United States indefinitely.
Another example of the Administration's border policy concerns a terrorism suspect apprehended in Yuma, Arizona, on April 17, 2022. Nevertheless, the Border Patrol released him and “he was allowed to board a flight bound for Tampa, Florida. … During pre-flight screening, the (Terrorist Screening Center) obtained additional information from the (Transportation Security Administration) to ensure the migrant fit the terrorist watch list. ICE (Enforcement and Removal Operations) (ERO) arrested the migrant more than two weeks later, on May 6, 2022.”
FBI letter
The Justice Department report corroborates a letter sent by 10 former FBI agents to leaders of the U.S. House and Senate.
Investigators noted not only the large number of suspects on terrorism watch lists entering the country, but also the disproportionate number of men of military age.
“It is difficult to overstate the danger” posed by illegal alien infiltrators, the investigators wrote. “They are potential perpetrators of accelerated, strategic infiltration, soft invasions, designed to penetrate the interior of a country where a military invasion is not possible, in order to inflict devastating damage if an adversary deems it necessary.”
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