We now know that at least 151 people on the FBI’s terror watch list have been stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year. What we have not known — until now — was how many people from potentially problematic countries have attempted to enter America illegally in the past few years.
Fox News’s Bill Melugin reports Tuesday, attributed to sources in the Customs and Border Protection department, that tens of thousands of so-called “special interest aliens” have been stopped trying to sneak across the border in the last two years hailing from countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and others. The term is used by the government to denote people from countries that favor or harbor terrorism or pose a potential national security threat to the country.
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“Border Patrol sources tell me they have extreme concerns about who is coming into the country because they have little to no way of vetting people from these special interest countries,” Mr. Melugin writes. “I’m told unless they have committed a crime previously in the US, or they are on some sort of federal watchlist, there’s no way to know who they are because most of their home countries don’t share data/records with the US so there is nothing to match a name to when [Border Patrol] agents run fingerprints.”
Mr. Melugin’s concerns might explain why the attorneys general from 27 states wrote to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, Tuesday asking the Biden administration to end its practice of releasing migrants wholesale in the United States. The attorney general from Florida, Ashley Moody, is leading the effort and says the weekend’s terror attacks in Israel have made their request all the more urgent.
“The Biden administration has let more than 7 million illegal immigrants across the U.S. border — including more than 1.5 million gotaways and 264 suspected terrorists,” Ms. Moody says. “Given the massive flood of unvetted migrants into the interior of our country, there is no way to know who is in the U.S. or if they plan to enact terror on Americans,” she said.
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