Posted on 02/09/2021 9:36:35 AM PST by caww
It turns out that Trump was correct that in the waves of illegal immigrants pouring over the southern border in the last decade were dozens of terrorists and terror sympathizers.
In his new book, America’s Covert Border War, The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, journalist and former counterterrorism intelligence official Todd Bensman found a model in Europe that could play out in the United States.
There, he found 104 crossed the border. That, he told Secrets, "proved the concept that border crossings by terrorists can and does happen."
Government records he reviewed showed that 22,000 so-called “special interest aliens,” the catchphrase for terrorist-related immigrants, were “encountered” between 2008 and 2019.
“Professional homeland security leadership under both Democrats and Republicans, with access to intelligence reporting most Americans don’t have, regarded the threat of terrorist infiltration as quite real,” wrote Bensman, now with the Center for Immigration Studies.
And just a few slipping in, as with the 9/11 attackers, could be catastrophic.
In an interview with Secrets, former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan raised concerns about terrorists and cartels mixing in with those the new administration plans to let in.
“We saw the cartels and smuggling operations use families and kids as a tactic to distract Border Patrol agents. They would send a family and a small group across knowing that resources would go there to process them and care for them,” he said.
“Meanwhile, the criminals and drugs went across the border right behind them. Now, that’s exactly what is already happening,” he said as some 3,500 are now surging the border since Biden signaled an open-door policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Now, Now. They aren’t terrorists.
They are undocumented homicidal maniacs.
I heard briefly that last week 11 Iranians were caught crossing the border.......
They’re just seeking a better life!
They are undocumented homicidal maniacs.Or unpaid Democrat operatives.
Yes indeed and that dropped out of the media real fast.....Bidens new Director of Security is Muslim....
No no. They’re the happy children of the forest here to show us how mean a racist we are and bring us all to a new, happy life.
Just seeking a target rich environment.
This isn’t new. They were apparently going to the Mexican consular offices along the border and getting bogus consular ID cards with Hispanic names. Which are considered a valid form of ID here.
Border terrorism - bump for later....
I’m buying a camel dealership.
“special interest aliens”
The D.C. Fence ?
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