Customs and Border Patrol Encounters Illegals From the Middle East As Terror Attacks Become a Concern for the U.S.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 19 Iranians and 17 Syrians in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, in addition to two Lebanese men this week.

CBP also apprehended an Egyptian man in his 40s in Eagle Pass, Texas, as terrorism concerns in the United States ramps up.

Despite President Joe Biden insisting that the border is closed, Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of "special interest aliens" amid terrorism concerns after Hamas continues to wage war on Israel.

According to Fox News Digital, special interest aliens "are people from countries identified by the U.S. government as having conditions that promote or protect terrorism or potentially pose some sort of national security threat to the U.S."

Lebanon sits on the same border as Israel, where the terrorist group Hezbollah presides. Much like Hamas, the group is funded by Iran and declared terrorists by the State Department.

Citing the Department of Homeland Security's threat assessment, Border Patrol agents have faced many encounters on the watch list, warning that "terrorists and criminal actors may exploit the elevated flow and increasingly complex security environment to enter the United States."

The assessment also notes, "Individuals with terrorism connections are interested in using established travel routes and permissive environments to facilitate access to the United States."

More from Fox News:

Thousands of special interest aliens have been arrested by agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years. That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and reflecting apprehensions between ports of entry between October 2021 and October 2023, showed that agents encountered 164 nationals from Lebanon. They also encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan, 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran, and 538 from Syria.

The 2023 fiscal year broke the record for having the most encounters on the FBI terror watch list, with 151 people apprehended at the border.

This comes as law enforcement nationwide is ramping up security measures as Hamas calls for a "Day of Rage" on Friday's "Day of Jihad." Major cities are expected to see large protests with the possibility of getting violent. Protests have already begun in the Middle East as crowds storm the streets in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq in support of Palestine.

Now there is a “special interest” to certain illegals. The special interest switched from no interest. Every damned Democrat president from Carter on (and a few Republicans), the tail wags the dog on foreign policy. The evil party’s only interest before all this was to get as many new Dem voters (read: dependent citizens) into the US as possible.

“...agents encountered 164 nationals from Lebanon. They also encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan, 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran, and 538 from Syria.”

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And those are the ones they caught. With an open border and 5-10 million illegals streaming into the US, how many of them slipped by unnoticed? And what about all the young Chinese men that the article failed to mention?

We have been invaded and the invasion continues to this day.

This is very bad.

Record Number of Suspected Terrorists Crossed the U.S.-Mexico Border | Opinion 10/28/22 (year old article)
Final fiscal year 2022 numbers show Border Patrol apprehended a whopping 98 watch-listed terrorists at the southern border, six times the record 15 caught there in 2021 (three were caught in 2020 and none in 2019).

And of course they only know about a fraction of those who enter illegally.

ALERT Have no verification of this report at present.

But it is being noted that in Matamoros, Mexico, directly across the border from Brownsville, Tx,
Hamas has a training center at a large factory, used to train young, military age men.

These men have been reported as infiltrating into the US with the continual border infestations.

Establishment of sleeper cells by Islamic terrorists was a major concern in the months after 9/11.

With the attack on Israel, numbers of pro Hamas rallies are being planned on US soil.

These sleeper cells find shelter and support in preparation for any future attack.

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