(The Center Square) – Hundreds of immigrants on the federal terror watch list have been caught at the southern and northern U.S. borders in recent years, and national security experts say there is a real threat of a terrorist attack on American soil as a result.
With the conflict between Israel and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas escalating, that threat has only grown.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s San Diego field office warns that Hamas ay attempt to send individuals to the U.S. through the southern border.
“San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit (SDFO-FITU) assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” an unclassified document from the office reads.
“Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.”
Lora Ries, a former acting deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told The Center Square that there is a real threat from illegal immigrants connected to Hamas, the terror group that killed more than 1,400 in Israel and took dozens of hostages this month.
“A terrorist attack facilitated or inspired by Hamas is absolutely a real threat in the United States,” she said. “The visceral hatred toward Israel and America that’s on display here at home and around the world should be a wakeup call. Since Biden took office, millions of inadmissible aliens have flooded through the open borders and into our country from over 160 countries around the world – including those harboring terrorists.”
U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, R–Tenn., raised similar concerns, pointing to federal data showing the high number of terrorism-connected migrants caught at the both the northern and southern border.
“Every American should be concerned about the state of our homeland security under this administration,” Green told The Center Square. “President [Joe] Biden and Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas’ refusal to properly enforce the laws passed by Congress or provide our frontline law enforcement with the policies they need to accomplish their mission has empowered our nation’s enemies.”
According to federal data, 736 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended at U.S. border in fiscal year 2023 alone, the most ever recorded according to available data. In recent years, there have been thousands of these migrants on the Terrorist Screening Center list.
Those figures do not account for migrants who were undetected or evaded capture from border patrol agents.
“How many known or suspected terrorists have successfully evaded apprehension alongside the nearly 1.6 million known gotaways at the Southwest border?” Green said. “And how many more do we have to apprehend at the border before Secretary Mayorkas feels it warrants real action? Communities across the country are in danger because of Secretary Mayorkas’ dereliction of duty. It is beyond unacceptable that Congress is still waiting for full transparency on these threats.”
These terror-connected migrants are part of a flood of millions of illegal migrants since Biden took office.
The increased illegal immigration has put increasing pressure on the Biden administration, which announced earlier this month that it would restart construction on a small Texas portion of the southern border wall, a Trump administration project that was largely derided by Democrats.
A group of Democratic state and local elected leaders sent a letter to the White House earlier this month calling on Biden to address the border crisis, which is costing states and municipalities billions of dollars to address.
The FBI maintains the Terrorist Screening Center, a multi-agency effort created after the 9/11 attacks to centralize one list of whom to watch across federal agencies.
When asked, the FBI gave few answers, deferring to the Department of Homeland Security.
“Specific intelligence-related criteria must be met for a person to be added to the TSC watchlist,” an FBI spokesperson told The Center Square.
A DHS spokesperson told The Center Square that the increased immigration from South America is a key cause for the increase in suspected terrorists but that the agency is focused on the problem.
They also said these encounters with suspected terrorists still represent a fraction of one percent of the overall encounters. In addition, sometimes family members or “known affiliates” of suspected terrorists could be counted on the watch list as well.
“As we learned on 9/11, it only takes a handful to destroy lives,” Ries, who now works with the Heritage Foundation, told The Center Square. “Meanwhile, Biden and his allies are burying their heads in the sand, refusing to secure our border or admit their progressive policies leave us open to attack. Americans should go about their daily lives as usual but add a layer of vigilance given the global atmosphere, dangerous lack of immigration enforcement, and clear anti-American sentiment that has grown in the U.S. after years of demonization from the Left.”
This treasonous, destructive, immoral, lying, woke, socialist Democrat Party, their RINOs and their corrupt, demented, obedient sock-puppet president Joe Biden has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
AND IF these hundred or so, are KNOWN about, you can be sure, there’s at least 10x times that many who are NOT KNOWN about.
The Illegal immigrants-Hamas- Coming accross America’s open Borders, Serves the democrat, Social,-/Communist Party onl.
This brings to mind the Quote taken from the Bible-Matthew-6:24- ” No man-Hamas- ” can serve two Masters: Either he will Hate The One, And Love The Other, Or Else he will hold To The one, And Despise The Other….” ” Hamas, ” The Trojan Horse.
A 7000 percent increase in suspect attempted terrorists border jumpers arriving since Biden opened the border??? and just watch when the first terrorist attack occurs, how surprised as the Jewish intelligence people were Oct 7th, as the FBI and Biden Justice department pretend to be, just like the Jews who got caught with their pants down and pretend they could not see it coming. If you do not understand that Biden has done more to enrich the real great Satan Iranian American enemies swearing to destroy the Jews and the USA, and if you are naive enough to believe these coordinated terrorist cells are not already here in the USA and organizing as we speak, then the fall of the American experiment in SELF-government will have ultimately proved that American humans are no longer capable of governing themselves ,and are need of and desirous of, puppet-masters, to delude, feed, protect, comfort and control them. Our founders declared that the government they designed was Christian in origin and would work for no others. The farther we retreat from workable Judeo/Christian values and import more foreign (Make America Weak) secular socialist and Muslim minded people who embrace the criminal aspects of an Islamic political organization disguised as a religion, the sooner it will all unravel, and sell-out Joe Biden will prove to have been the prime mover of the acceleration of the fall of American freedoms.
AND IF this isn’t reason enough to charge mayorkas with Dereliction of duty, what the hell is?
America stands alone in maintaining a feedom unknown to a good part of the world. Communist Russia, China, Iran,Etc. And other Communist dominated Countries Citizens are fleeing these countries and immigrating to America by the thousands to begin a new life here, The main problem is that these immigrants still want to live under Communism here in America just like the the style of Government that they’re fleeing From.Russia’s Putin once told the Muslim immigrants,” Muslims Need Russia, Russia doesn’t Need Muslims…” America should tell immigrants as Russia’s Putin once did, Immigrants need America, America doesn’t Need immigrants.
Checks and balances are NOT working like they are supposed too! Come Congress , wake the hell up!
Unfortunately, the RINOS and never-trumpers, are too busy holding up our house of reps.
Former ” COMMUNITY ORGANISER, FORMER ILLINOIS SENATOR, AND FORMER democrat President, Barack H. Obama said this, ” America is, and always will be, A LAND OF IMMIGRANTS. ”
it seems THOUGH, like all the pro-MUSLIMS HAVE TAKEN ADVANAGE OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES as recent Anti-ISRAEAL PROTESTS SHOW.
Jeez, what a surprise. Never would’ve expected terrorists to enter the country thru our wide-open borders….
Close your eyes and imagine what would happen! You are laying on your bed when you hear some sounds from outside, neighbors screaming and calling for help! You get up thinking it was all just a dream, when you walk to your front windows and see you neighbors and friends getting pushed down the street by armed terrorists. You hide hopping they did not see you, they still smash through your front door, looking for anyone that might be in the house. Fortunately they over look your gun safe as it is disguised as a locker. They over look where you are hiding, as they walk out you take careful aim and hit the guy in back with a high power air gun, he goes down almost without a sound, you have already hidden again. So they do not know what happened. As you start thinking about it you wonder where every one is, and you make some phone calls. The fbi is if no use as they know nothing about what is going on. You call the police and it is the same thing. So you call your comrades that you were the Marines with and they agree that the country is under attack from within and that action is needed, plans are put in place and you take action, taking out as many terrorists as you can.
Think about it this can very well happen very soon because of byden and his hatred of the country.
With how borked up the FBI IS, likely they’d come after YOU For “hate crimes against muslims”, than come to your defense.
Close your eyes and imagine what would happen! You are laying on your bed when you hear some sounds from outside, neighbors screaming and calling for help! You get up thinking it was all just a dream, when you walk to your front windows and see you neighbors and friends getting pushed down the street by armed terrorists. You hide hopping they did not see you, they still smash through your front door, looking for anyone that might be in the house. Fortunately they over look your gun safe as it is disguised as a locker. They over look where you are hiding, as they walk out you take careful aim and hit the guy in back with a high power air gun, he goes down almost without a sound, you have already hidden again. So they do not know what happened. As you start thinking about it you wonder where every one is, and you make some phone calls. The fbi is if no use as they know nothing about what is going on. You call the police and it is the samething. So you call your comrades you were in Marines with and you have the plans set up and you take action, you take out many of the terrorists before they knew what hit them.
Think about it this could very well happen because the the way byden is treating the border, we could get hit from inside our own borders! It would be up to the people to handle a fight such ax the one in this story.
The headline could read “Experts CONTINUE TO Warn Of Hamas-Connected Terrorists Crossing U.S. Border!”
AND Nothing is done about those warnings.. ALMOST LIKE they are falling on deaf ears.
” Its Hard to Free Fools From Chains They Revere.” Voltaire
People voting for democrats, well because my Family And Freinds have Always voted for the democrats-ME TOO.!