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About Those 42 Terrorists Who Crossed the American Southern Border
Townhall.com ^ | April 27, 2022 | Todd Bensman

Posted on 04/27/2022 6:47:51 AM PDT by Kaslin


Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas

AUSTIN, Texas — In 2018, when President Donald Trump said Islamic terrorist suspects were crossing America’s southern border among Central American caravans — just about everyone with a megaphone called him a fear-mongering, anti-immigrant liar.

But the sound of silence is overwhelming now that Democrats are saying the same thing. President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is just out with two new revelations about the national security border threat posed by jihadist infiltration, putatively fake when Republicans asserted them.

One revelation came by way of a Fox News Freedom of Information Act request to DHS. The agency’s return said that between January 20 and December 27, 2021, Border Patrol encountered 23 border-crossing migrants caught in the brush who matched the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), the terror watch list. Serious, vetted intelligence information is necessary nowadays for anyone to get nominated and approved for the TSDB.

A second piece of information came by separate information request from Texas Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas). DHS reported back that between Inauguration Day and December 31, 2021 federal authorities caught 42 watch-listed immigrants between ports of entry and in the brush between ports of entry. The overlap between the Roy and Fox News information is not clear. It’s also not clear whether the ports of entry referenced here are on the border or might reference interior international airports. But we do know - from what Democrats should regard as an indisputably credible source - that as few as 23 and as many as 42 suspected terrorists were encountered at the American border last year, and not according to Donald Trump.

AUSTIN, Texas — In 2018, when President Donald Trump said Islamic terrorist suspects were crossing America’s southern border among Central American caravans — just about everyone with a megaphone called him a fear-mongering, anti-immigrant liar.

But the sound of silence is overwhelming now that Democrats are saying the same thing. President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is just out with two new revelations about the national security border threat posed by jihadist infiltration, putatively fake when Republicans asserted them.

One revelation came by way of a Fox News Freedom of Information Act request to DHS. The agency’s return said that between January 20 and December 27, 2021, Border Patrol encountered 23 border-crossing migrants caught in the brush who matched the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), the terror watch list. Serious, vetted intelligence information is necessary nowadays for anyone to get nominated and approved for the TSDB.

A second piece of information came by separate information request from Texas Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas). DHS reported back that between Inauguration Day and December 31, 2021 federal authorities caught 42 watch-listed immigrants between ports of entry and in the brush between ports of entry. The overlap between the Roy and Fox News information is not clear. It’s also not clear whether the ports of entry referenced here are on the border or might reference interior international airports. But we do know - from what Democrats should regard as an indisputably credible source - that as few as 23 and as many as 42 suspected terrorists were encountered at the American border last year, and not according to Donald Trump.

Three Things to Know

First, know this: any illegally crossing immigrant on the FBI’s terror watch list, for whatever reason they got on it, does not qualify for entry into America under any circumstance and must be deported.

Second, illegal immigration from nations where Islamic terrorist groups operate happens all year every year. This is a steady-state smuggling flow into South America or Central America, where Biden’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they enter into the northbound smuggling lanes to the American border, although certainly only a minority will be involved in terrorism.

Third, jihadist entry over the southern border is a fundamentally non-partisan homeland security threat issue that should unify parties in public acknowledgement that we have a problem, Houston.

Even current Biden-appointed DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted as much on March 16, 2021 at a U.S. House Homeland Security Committee hearing. (Listen to his comments here, at about the 1:48:00 mark). Here’s what he said when a Republican lawmaker asked if terrorists cross the border:


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: crimaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; southernborder
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To: Kaslin

The only thing good about this is that when they attack it will be a Dem city that takes the blow.

I wonder if they ever found that radioactive source that went missing in PA.


21 posted on 04/27/2022 9:16:11 AM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: Kaslin

Terrorist or not it doesn’t matter to the democrats a vote is a vote.

Bonus round
Free stuff = Socialism = Marxism


22 posted on 04/27/2022 9:51:40 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: dhs12345

But there is a good chance that we will have another 9/11 and the terrorist will be traced to the wide open borders during the Biden presidency.

Like Frank James, the subway shooter, it will be dropped down the memory hole by the media.


23 posted on 04/27/2022 12:45:53 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: carriage_hill

Agreed. But there is hope since we are like minded and believe in justice and the US Constitution and are Christians. At least that is who I am. There have been many great Americans before us, too.

All of the elements make and have made America great.


24 posted on 04/27/2022 3:32:33 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: carriage_hill

You are wise!


25 posted on 04/27/2022 3:33:19 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: rxh4n1

But we won’t let them. If they are responsible, if they are complicit, I will blame them and anyone else.

I’ll probably get thrown in the gulag by the FBI because according to the leftists in the government average Americans cannot be trusted and are terrorists in the making. Lock us up!

Maybe I am a fool for still believing... look at how the Jan 6 protesters are being treated. Their civil liberties are being violated and no one is complaining. Very sad.


26 posted on 04/27/2022 3:38:15 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

At least that is who I am.
Me too.


27 posted on 04/27/2022 3:38:35 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dhs12345

Thank you, kindly.


28 posted on 04/27/2022 3:38:58 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

The police will be overwhelmed if they all strike, nationwide, at 10am on Thursday, 20??... pick a date and time. It’ll be far worse than 9-11-2001....

And the feds will move in to restore order.

Their kind of order.

It’s all part of the plan.


29 posted on 04/28/2022 6:46:03 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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To: Texas resident

Right you are.


30 posted on 04/28/2022 7:12:30 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Texas resident

“And the feds will move in to restore order.
Their kind of order.”

That won’t go well.


31 posted on 04/29/2022 5:39:58 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

God Bless. :)


32 posted on 04/29/2022 6:17:54 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: carriage_hill

Remember that all governments rule by consent. But contrary to what Democrats and leftist believe, government is not all powerful nor should it be.

We trust the government to do the right thing and when we lose that trust, all bets are off. It is a reasonable exchange; a pact between the citizen and the government. Good rule applies here: We should always hope for the best but plan for the worst. Because there is a very good chance that the worst will happen. Eventually.

After all we are humans with human nature. We are corrupted, we are flawed. By acknowledging this fact, we have improved the chances that America and the US Constitution will continue to exist in the future.


33 posted on 04/29/2022 6:38:33 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

Very eloquently put.


34 posted on 04/29/2022 7:12:16 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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