November 9, 2023
In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray gave an ominous warning:
“The terrorist threat has been elevated throughout 2023. But, the on-going war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack on Americans in the US to a whole nother level.”
Keep in mind that Biden’s immigration policies have allowed unvetted foreign nationals to flood over the border during the span of his entire presidency. Under Biden’s directive, more than 10 million illegals have crossed the US border. Among them are 1.7 million known got aways- illegals who evaded capture. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Maryorkas recently testified to Congress that over 600,000 known got aways crossed into the US this year alone.
According to Chris Olivares, Lt spokesperson with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the gotaway number is much higher than reported because gotaways are an estimation based on camera images and foot tracking. No one knows how many illegal crossers make it into the interior undetected.
When Senator Josh Hawley asked Maryorkas if he could “say that Hamas, Hezbollah, or other Iran-backed terrorists are not in the US currently after possibly illegally crossing our Southern border”, he could not say they were not. Not surprising because under his leadership, almost 100,000 “special interest aliens”, aliens from nations considered a national security concern, have entered the US.
Further, at least 172 individuals on the terror watchlist attempted to cross into the US in just fiscal year 2023- more than the previous six years combined. How many terrorists or dangerous criminals slipped through due to insufficient vetting or are among the zero vetted 1.7 million gotaways?
Last month, border patrol released a 29-year-old African terrorist suspect into the US after he illegally entered Arizona via the southern border. He roamed freely for weeks before being arrested by US authorities. Fox News Bill Melugin explained that border patrol can not hold illegal migrants long enough to vet them sufficiently. Consequently, information sometimes comes in after border patrol releases them into the US.
In February, the ICE attache in Brazil notified US officials that a 39-year-old Brazilian man, Luiz Fernando Moreira, an illegal immigrant admitted into the US in July 2021, was a convicted murderer. US Enforcement and Removal Operations subsequently arrested Moreira on April 25. Moreira, a dangerous fugitive on the run, was free to roam within the United States for almost two years.
Disturbingly, the Biden administration has no idea who they have let into the interior of the United States. Another case in point- a newly released ICE report reveals that a Venezuelan national who illegally entered the US in July of this year “failed to disclose” his homicide conviction in Venezuela to US border patrol. Border patrol subsequently processed him into the US and gave him a notice to appear at ICE offices within 60 days.
After he failed to appear, on October 27, authorities went to his state-provided housing, Joint Base Cape, where the Venezuelan national admitted his conviction.
Would the Venezuelan convicted murderer, who resided in the US for three months, ever been “caught” if he was not living in taxpayer-funded housing, making it easy to locate him, and if he had not admitted the truth? Doubtful.
It is a certainty that there are many dangerous foreign nationals living in the US courtesy of Biden’s open border policies. Despite the Biden administration’s claims that migrants are thoroughly vetted, they are not.
The truth, many foreign nationals come across the border with no identification but are still admitted into the US. Further, border patrol only has access to US databases and Interpol notices. Most countries do not share records with the US, so if a migrant has a criminal history outside the US, border patrol often has no way of knowing and relies on the migrant self-reporting their background. In other words, thousands of illegal migrants are being ushered into the US every single day on the honor system.
While the world is a tinder box and terrorists emboldened, a massive caravan of 7,000 foreign nationals is heading to the US-Mexico border. Illegal migrants continue to come to the US en masse because even with the heightened terror warnings, the Biden administration has not reversed course on their open border policies. Unfortunately, it does not appear that they plan to alter their abandonment of US sovereignty.
Evidencing that they do not even view the border crisis as problematic when asked during congressional questioning on Wednesday to name any policy changes the Biden administration could make to ameliorate the situation at the border, Maryorkas could not cite even one. Maryorkas also refused to admit that millions of foreigners flooding the US presents a terrorism risk- of course it does.
It is not a matter of if terrorists and other dangerous individuals have come across the border under Biden. The only question is where and when they will act against Americans.
