Posted on 01/27/2026 5:36:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
Criminal illegal aliens with ties to foreign terrorist organizations, according to the Department of Homeland Security. (DHS).
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Homeland Security in the past year has arrested multiple illegal aliens it says have known ties to terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.
According to the agency, the illegal aliens include members of al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Islamic Republic Guard Corps of Iran, and MS-13, which President Donald Trump designated a foreign terrorist organization when he returned to office.
“Just a year ago, under [President] Joe Biden, our border was wide open, and criminals, gang members, and terrorists were released into our communities,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, stated.
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Homeland Security in the past year has arrested multiple illegal aliens it says have known ties to terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.
According to the agency, the illegal aliens include members of al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Islamic Republic Guard Corps of Iran, and MS-13, which President Donald Trump designated a foreign terrorist organization when he returned to office.
“Just a year ago, under [President] Joe Biden, our border was wide open, and criminals, gang members, and terrorists were released into our communities,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, stated.
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Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have “unleashed” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “to target the worst of the worst, including national security threats,” McLaughlin said, adding that the Trump administration is “delivering on the American people’s mandate to make America safe again, and we’re just getting started.”
One of the detainees is Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, identified as a member of the Iraqi Shia militant group Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq.
The first Trump administration designated Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq a foreign terrorist organization in 2020. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the group as “violent proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Al Fawadi, an illegal alien from Iraq, has a criminal history that includes charges for rape and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation. He has been convicted on federal charges of making false statements on an immigration application about his membership in Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq.
He was given a deportation order in 2022, but ICE arrested him in the U.S. in November 2025.
Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi (DHS)
Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, originally from Sudan, was convicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. ICE arrested him in June.
Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan (DHS)
Fares Abdo Al Eyani, a criminal alien from Yemen, was previously convicted “for conspiracy to unlawfully export defense articles in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations,” DHS reports.
Jordanian Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman has a record that includes conviction for conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
Majid Ghorbani served in the Iranian military and was “charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and convicted for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and petty theft.”
Illegal aliens Fares Abdo Al Eyani, Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman, and Majid Ghorbani. (DHS)
Portrait of Virginia Allen Virginia Allen @Virginia_Allen5 Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Homeland Security in the past year has arrested multiple illegal aliens it says have known ties to terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.
According to the agency, the illegal aliens include members of al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Islamic Republic Guard Corps of Iran, and MS-13, which President Donald Trump designated a foreign terrorist organization when he returned to office.
“Just a year ago, under [President] Joe Biden, our border was wide open, and criminals, gang members, and terrorists were released into our communities,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, stated.
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Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have “unleashed” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “to target the worst of the worst, including national security threats,” McLaughlin said, adding that the Trump administration is “delivering on the American people’s mandate to make America safe again, and we’re just getting started.”
One of the detainees is Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, identified as a member of the Iraqi Shia militant group Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq.
The first Trump administration designated Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq a foreign terrorist organization in 2020. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the group as “violent proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Al Fawadi, an illegal alien from Iraq, has a criminal history that includes charges for rape and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation. He has been convicted on federal charges of making false statements on an immigration application about his membership in Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq.
He was given a deportation order in 2022, but ICE arrested him in the U.S. in November 2025.
Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi (DHS) Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, originally from Sudan, was convicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. ICE arrested him in June.
Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan (DHS) Fares Abdo Al Eyani, a criminal alien from Yemen, was previously convicted “for conspiracy to unlawfully export defense articles in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations,” DHS reports.
Jordanian Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman has a record that includes conviction for conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
Majid Ghorbani served in the Iranian military and was “charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and convicted for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and petty theft.”
Illegal aliens Fares Abdo Al Eyani, Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman, and Majid Ghorbani. (DHS) Additionally, DHS reported arrests of MS-13 gang members Gaulner Uliel Pineda Castillo, a Guatemalan who was previously arrested for a kidnapping plot, and Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernandez, an illegal alien from El Salvador with a criminal history that “includes arrests for murder, assault, dangerous weapons with intent to injure, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy assault, and stalking.”
Illegal aliens Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernandez and Gaulner Uliel Pineda Castillo. (DHS)
The Department of Homeland Security faces criticism and backlash following a Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
Two and a half weeks before that, an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Both shootings took place amid anti-immigration enforcement operation protests in Minneapolis and are currently under investigation.
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The borders were opened to intentionally cause chaos. A bit of chaos getting them out is to be expected especially with the actions of violent leftists who attack ICE and DHS agents.
Put these terrorists and the ICE protestors in the same room together. Problem solved.
I see one of them took advantage of our wonderful health care system and got a sex change!!
Arrest? Should be cardiac arrest as their hearts STOP beating.
Are they really terrorists if they are helping dirty Democrat politicians?
...who know's how many other Minnesota's were in the works?
Based on recent reports and congressional testimony, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies, has apprehended dozens of individuals with ties to ISIS or al-Qaeda, particularly focusing on those crossing the southern border.
Key Findings on Arrests (2021–2024):
Southern Border Encounters: Between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, more than 370 individuals on the terror watchlist (Terrorist Screening Data Set) were apprehended attempting to enter illegally between ports of entry on the Southwest border.
Targeted Arrests (ISIS): In June 2024,8 Tajik nationals with potential ties to ISIS were arrested by ICE in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles after they had previously crossed the southern border.
Reports indicate that from FY2021 through mid-2024, hundreds of migrants on the terror watchlist were apprehended, with specific cases involving suspects tied to ISIS.
In May 2025, ICE arrested a Tajikistan-born Russian national in Philadelphia who was a suspected member of al-Qaeda.
The number of suspected terrorists stopped at the Southwest border increased from 11 in FY2017-2020 to over 360 between FY2021 and mid-2024.
Reported Releases: A 2024 House Judiciary Committee report stated that, of the over 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist encountered at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, DHS released nearly 100 into the United States.
These numbers generally refer to individuals on the Terrorist Screening Data Set (TSDS), which includes known, suspected, or, in some cases, affiliates of terror organizations (like family members or associates), rather than only proven, convicted terrorists.
Re: The ‘Elderly Terrorist’ in this group. I think he’s the oldest terrorist I’ve ever seen! They’ve usually blown themselves up before they ‘age out’ in terrorism.
He must not be a very good terrorist. *SMIRK*
known, suspected, or, in some cases, affiliates of terror organizations (like family members or associates), rather than only proven, convicted terrorists.
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What about the overabundance of caution?
Nobody, even slightly suspected of terrorism, should be ever allowed to enter this country!
Yes, you may be innocent, maybe, but we do not want you here.
Not allowing somebody in is not punishment, just protection!
It's a two-way street, that's for sure. I'm guessing most democrats haven't put that together, yet.
https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/1002-2018-letters-of-support-for-cair.pdf
That's linked from
https://www.bucksafa11.org/2018/11/03/democrats-been-traitors-to-our-republic-for-a-long-time/
Agreed.
Thanks for the links to the C.A.I.R. supporters.
My New Years resolution was to post less and learn how to play the violin. Yesterday I just got around to learning how to apply rosin to the bow. Oi!!!
Yeah, I was thinking I’d like to learn how to play piano. I don’ know if that will happen though.
lol
But they look like such a friendly group of ass scratchin’ “neighbors”. The kind that don’t complain to the police when they see you running around your yard in your Ghillie suit and carrying your AK 47 while hiding in the bushes.
As the Dempanic kung flu started to taper off, the commie piggy, Joe Biden, started importing freeloading foreigners to keep the commie pig chaos rolling.
Democratic Party clients.
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