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Eight people with possible Islamic State ties arrested in US on immigration violations
Associated Press ^ | June 11, 2024 | Eric Tucker and Rebecca Santana

Posted on 06/16/2024 6:11:32 AM PDT by karpov

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the individuals, who entered the U.S. through the southern border, are being held on immigration violations, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The nature of their suspected connections to the IS was not immediately clear, but the individuals were being tracked by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, or JTTF. They were in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which made the arrests while working with the JTTF, pending proceedings to remove them from the country.

The individuals from Tajikistan entered the country last spring and passed through the U.S. government’s screening process without turning up information that would have identified them as potential terrorism-related concerns, said one of the people familiar with the matter.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a statement confirming the immigration-related arrests of “several non-citizens” but did not detail specifics. The agencies noted that the U.S. has been in a “heightened threat environment.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray has said the U.S. is facing accelerating threats from homegrown violent extremists as well as foreign terrorist organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

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TOPICS: Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bidenalieninvasion; bidensfault; gaza; hamas; isil; islamicstate; israel; tajikistan; waronterror

1 posted on 06/16/2024 6:11:32 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Deport them all.


2 posted on 06/16/2024 6:17:57 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: karpov

8 so FAR.

It’s the other 57,234 “known wolves” still “on the FBI’s radar” we should be worried about.


3 posted on 06/16/2024 6:21:34 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: karpov

Now arrest the congresscritters with the same ties.


4 posted on 06/16/2024 6:22:50 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: karpov

“Eight people with possible Islamic State ties arrested in US on immigration violations”

Normally I would want to support Trump, rather than have an Open Border with ISIS people entering, but Trump is just so brash, and the Tweets are so mean, that I just cannot bring myself to vote for him.
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5 posted on 06/16/2024 6:30:38 AM PDT by BobL (Yes, it's sarcasm, but use your brain when you vote, not your emotions)
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To: karpov

What about the other 8000+ that they have no clue about? There are one hell of a lot more that 8 terrorists roaming free!!!!!


6 posted on 06/16/2024 6:43:24 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: karpov

And when the savages blow up a building in the USA will senile joe biden take responsibility?
-— NO.


7 posted on 06/16/2024 6:44:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: No name given
Deport them all.

That is useless. They will just re-enter through our open southern border.

How about just removing them from the gene pool?

But I suspect we will see more of these stories so Biden can claim all is under control. These terrorists are funded by friends of Biden and throw a few under the bus to make his re-election easier.

Then, if Trump wins, the FBI will pull back and we will get some terrorist events on our soil so the Democrats can blame Trump for them.

8 posted on 06/16/2024 6:45:44 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: karpov

They got them on immigration violations but not because they are terrorists?


9 posted on 06/16/2024 6:47:41 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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on immigration violations but not because they are terrorists

So, were the eight released to general population with a hearing scheduled in January?


10 posted on 06/16/2024 6:54:10 AM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: drSteve78

Probably Jan.2030.


11 posted on 06/16/2024 6:55:57 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: karpov

But did not detail specifics

Must be top CCP leaders


12 posted on 06/16/2024 6:56:38 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: karpov

Like a cop grabbing one guy from a flash mob robbery.


13 posted on 06/16/2024 7:16:08 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: karpov

“The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles”

Wait, aren’t those sanctuary cities? How is this possible?


14 posted on 06/16/2024 8:46:13 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: karpov

LBJ’s Hart-Celler act bill It will not shape the structure of our daily lives.

First our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants.
Ted Kennedy


15 posted on 06/16/2024 12:40:14 PM PDT by Vaduz
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