Posted on 03/16/2021 12:31:49 PM PDT by gattaca
House GOP Leader says border agents told him Iran, Yemen and Sri Lanka citizens have been caught at the southern border
Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call By Nicholas Ballasy Updated: March 15, 2021 - 4:00pm Article Dig In Republican Rep. John Katko, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Monday during a trip to the southern border that U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended individuals who were on the terrorist watchlist.
"Something that very much concerns me as the Homeland Security ranking member is people they've caught in the last few days over there in sector three or monument three, have been on the terror watchlist," Katko, a former federal organized crime and narcotics prosecutor, said during a news conference in El Paso with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republican lawmakers. "Individuals that they have on the watchlist for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border. We need to wake up. We need to understand."
McCarthy said some border agents told him they've encountered individuals from the Middle East attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally.
"I asked them, 'Who are the individuals you're catching?' Yeah, they're from Central America. But do you know who else? Iran, Yemen, Sri Lanka," he said. "When I walked through the facility, there's more Haitians than any other nationality I saw. And why were they coming now? We asked the border agents, they were shocked themselves – because they're being released into the country."
The group of GOP lawmakers said President Biden's executive actions that rolled back many Trump-era immigration policies have resulted in a more dangerous situation at the border. Biden has ended former President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy that required asylum seekers encountered at the border to wait for their court hearings in Mexico. A total of 25,000 migrants are being transferred in phases into the U.S. after Biden's elimination of the "Stay in Mexico" policy. Biden has also restored the Obama-era "catch and release" policy.
"Mr. President Biden, you're an okay guy. Why don't you just admit you made a mistake with this policy and go back to the way it was and keep America safe for all of us?" Katko said.
Some of the migrants released into U.S. cities in Texas and North Carolina have tested positive for COVID-19.
"When I talk to the doctor to see when they're being tested for COVID. When they get out, more than 10% are testing positive, and you're being stored together. In a time when our president will keep our country closed," McCarthy said. "And maybe we have hope for a fourth of July to get together just with our family. How much spread of COVID is he creating every single day by his policies along this border? It's wrong snd it has to end. It needs to end now."
Terrorist watch list? I thought only white Christians were on that list!
I love it when a plan comes together
That’s easy to fix: take their names off the terrorist watch list.
This is like reading the news from 20+ years ago.
Same old thing..Same old Communist tactics, flood the country and divide the once united.
The Democrats thrive in Chaos. That’s why Biden’s generating it on purpose. They can pass a lot of legislation during times of crisis.
No one cares until something is blown up and people are killed. And then, I have doubts as to whether people will care after that.
And they all had John Kerry’s business card on them...
President Trump needs to issue a statement about this.
So, the Muriel Freedom Float on global steroids.
Carter must be crying with laughter into his sweet tea that he is no longer the worst President the country has ever had.
As for the terrorists coming over the border, I live outside the city so I’m not too worried about IEDs, VBIEDs, or suicide bombers. That’s gonna happen in the DEMOCRATIC RUN CITIES. Where most of the 80,000,000 folks that voted for Harris and CornPop live.
However it is interesting, it would appear that select people are “coming over”. I’d imagine because they want a better life and a chance at the American dream.
Amazingly, that terror watch list must be lengthy and getting longer with so many white, male, Conservatives on it.
If this continues to go in the direction it appears to be going, some really hard choices are going to have to be made soon. Guys like Neil Boortz and Rush Limbaugh like/liked to say that no one wanted to round up illegals, etc and bus them back to the border. When the bombs start going off, it might just come to that.
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So Joseph Stolen is aiding and abetting terrorists?
100,000 illegal aliens were detained crossing the border in February.
Maybe they catch 10%, which is generous.
Meaning perhaps a million illegal aliens per month are entering the US.
Who’da thunk it?
The Democrats’ base.
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