Senate Republicans are furious over reports that the Biden administration detained eight suspected ISIS extremists crossing the southern border and seized control of the country.
Federal lawmakers erupted on social media after a report from the New York Post revealed that federal law enforcement had conducted a sting operation over the weekend in three places that led to the arrest of illegal immigrants with proved ties to the Islamic State.
The defendants were spotted at the southern borders and let into the country. Despite the Biden administration’s reassurance that all refugees arrested were thoroughly verified and screened before being allowed into the country, federal government did not realize until after their launch in 2023 that they posed a serious threat to national security.
” The only thing more disturbing than @JoeBiden’s available border is that we have never had a terror attack on our earth yet”, Sen. Steve Daines ( R- MT ) said in a blog to X on Wednesday evening.
Sen. Ted Cruz ( R- TX ) echoed Daines’s sentiment and called the revelation unsurprising given the border crisis, which began when Biden took office in early 2021.
We’ve seen this coming from a mile apart, so I’m not surprised this happened. I’ve been saying this is the most exposed country to have been to a terrorist attack since 9/11/01 for more than a year,” Cruz said. ” This is a direct result of Joe Biden’s border policies”.
Federal officials from U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested six immigrants during statues in Los Angeles, New York City, and Philadelphia. According to the New York Post, government wiretapped people and recorded a discussion about making weapons.
More than 172 known or suspected terrorists were caught by the Border Patrol in governmental 2023, which ended in September of last year. They were entering the country from Mexico or Canada without authorization.
The number is significantly lower than the single-digit terrorist watch list amounts that the Trump administration has seen. As Middle Eastern violence escalates, Democrats and Republicans are concerned about the remarkable increase, which has increased to double and then triple digits, in particular.
FBI Director Christopher Wray , testified , before the Senate in August 2022 that although there was no “imminent danger from a foreign terrorist business on the frontier at the moment”, jihadists were looking for any risk to “exploit”.
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Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, stated on Wednesday that she was particularly concerned about the refugees who were taken into custody given their country of origin. The eight people apparently had Russian ancestry before crossing the US borders.
In a post to X, Lake wrote,” The 8 suspected ISIS jihadists who crossed the wide-open southern borders were from Tajikistan.” During the March 22 terrorist attack, four jihadists crossed the border into Russia and slaughtered 145 attendees there.
