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18,000 confirmed and suspected terrorists entered U.S. under Biden
Washington Times ^ | December 11, 2025 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 12/13/2025 7:09:20 AM PST by Mr. Mojo

The government has identified 18,000 known or suspected terrorists who reached the U.S. during the Biden administration, senior officials told Congress on Thursday.

Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said they represent a “persistent” threat inside the country.

“The No. 1 threat that we have right now in my view is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders,” Mr. Kent told the House Homeland Security Committee as part of a hearing on worldwide threats.

He said the 18,000 are just the ones his agency has been able to identify so far. He suggested that others could be lurking, particularly those who sneaked across the border.

Known or suspected terrorists, or KSTs as they are called in Washington-speak, are those whom the government has linked either directly to terrorist activities or deemed associates of those who are terrorists.

Mr. Kent said they would have been blocked under normal immigration procedures.

“Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry,” he said.

He pointed to Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan migrant charged in the shooting attack near the White House last month that killed one National Guard soldier and critically wounded another. The man was admitted to the U.S. as part of President Biden’s airlift of Afghans in 2021 after years of assisting the U.S. war effort.

“The Biden administration essentially used his tactical-level vetting as a ruse to bring him here,” Mr. Kent said.

He said 2,000 of the 18,000 known or suspected terrorists his agency has identified arrived as part of the Afghan airlift operations.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; caliphate; fjb; invasion; islam; jihad; terrorism; terrorists

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1 posted on 12/13/2025 7:09:20 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

People care more about prices.


2 posted on 12/13/2025 7:13:08 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Mr. Mojo

He would let them in as long as they dropped off an “unaccompanied toddler” with a loaded crappy diaper at the border for him.


3 posted on 12/13/2025 7:13:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

only 18,000?

that less than 1% of the 20-30 million illegal invaders during the brandon regime


4 posted on 12/13/2025 7:14:03 AM PST by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

those who let them in,
should lose their jobs, their pensions,
their liberties, and get Trials and forced accountability
INCLUDING for any and all crimes the illegals have,
and will, commit.


5 posted on 12/13/2025 7:14:52 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Mr. Mojo

It took a lot less than 18,000 to cause havoc in 9/11.


6 posted on 12/13/2025 7:23:57 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Mr. Mojo

And yet, still about half this country votes democratic,,,,UNBELIEVABLE!


7 posted on 12/13/2025 7:45:13 AM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Mr. Mojo
Yep. And the Democrats will fight tooth and nail to keep every single one here.

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8 posted on 12/13/2025 7:53:45 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?ZS)
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To: Mr. Mojo

That’s 18,000 more examples of the Biden kakistocracy giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.

It is unfortunate that even after being tried and convicted in court, Traitorjoe and his leftist cohorts can only be sentenced to hang once. That’s why the sentence should include leaving their carcasses to rot off the noose.


9 posted on 12/13/2025 8:29:35 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: EvilCapitalist

Do you remember when they found prayers rugs, Korans etc in Mexico, as sozens/hundreds/thousands of muslims(SPIT!) sneaked across the border, after 9-11?


10 posted on 12/13/2025 8:30:45 AM PST 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: thinden

One of the more imbecilic comments I’ve read on this forum.


11 posted on 12/13/2025 8:34:47 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Mr. Mojo

Terrorists are our strength.


12 posted on 12/13/2025 8:42:27 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Mr. Mojo; All
Dems hate this country so much, they are sad that the number is so low.

Every day an American is raped or murdered by an illegal, is a good day for a Democrat.”

Too bad no one in The Stupid Party didn’t have the guts to say this out loud in the halls of Congress.

13 posted on 12/13/2025 10:02:38 AM PST by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: volare737

“And yet, still about half this country votes democratic,,,,UNBELIEVABLE!”

If only Trump administration officials would stop saying the “Biden administration” and start telling the truth and just say “DEMOCRATS.”

Half the country still votes democrats, supposedly, because the Trump administration officials always say Biden administration and the Biden administration is gone, leaving democrats free and clear.

It is the democrats who are responsible for this. And if they ever get back in power, they will hurriedly repeat it.


14 posted on 12/13/2025 10:24:32 AM PST by odawg
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only 18,000?

that less than 1% of the 20-30 million illegal invaders during the brandon regime

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

One of the more imbecilic comments I’ve read on this forum.

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just for the sake of round numbers, let’s say there were only 20 million illegal invaders during brandon’s regime.

then,
18,000 “confirmed and suspected terrorist” would be only 9/10th of 1%

do you think 2% of the 20 million would be more realistic? that would be only 36,000

do you think 5% of the 20 million of the illegal invaders could be terrorist?
that would be only 100,000.

10% would be only 200,000.

it was reported that the majority of the invaders crossing the southern border were younger military aged men.

A brigade in the US Army typically consists of between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers

so, 18,000 confirmed and suspected terrorist could be the equivalent manpower of up to 5 army brigades

A Field Army is the U.S. Army’s largest unit structure (50,000 and more soldiers - or 10-15 brigades). The last use of a Field Army was in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, which took place in Iraq, Kuwait, and outlying areas of Saudi Arabia

so, even using the estimated 18,000 confirmed and suspected terrorist estimated, that’s still about one half the size of a “field army” as used in Desert Storm that have “boots on the ground in the United States today.

my question would be how many more of the un-vetted invaders
could realistically be expected to be terrorist?

feel better now?


15 posted on 12/13/2025 10:34:25 AM PST by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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16 posted on 12/13/2025 11:35:36 AM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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To: thinden
only 18,000? that less than 1% of the 20-30 million illegal invaders during the Brandon regime

World Trade Center only needed a handful.

17 posted on 12/13/2025 11:43:19 AM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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To: thinden
Good post.

I wish the MSM would run those numbers, of course, we know they never will.

18 posted on 12/13/2025 12:47:06 PM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: nwrep
"People care more about prices."

Today.

19 posted on 12/13/2025 1:09:19 PM PST by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: odawg

I agree. They should ONLY use the term democrats. Biden was more than a puppet on strings.


20 posted on 12/13/2025 2:19:20 PM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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