(PatriotsUnited.org) – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has apprehended more than 400 people who have jumped the United States border while also involved in a human trafficking network linked to ISIS.
Because these migrants were not found on a terrorist watchlist, the authorities allowed them to cross the U.S. border via this known network. One hundred fifty of them have been arrested, according to the DHS, but the location of fifty migrants spread out over seventeen states remains a mystery. The precise number of deportees from the 150 people apprehended is unknown. Several of the migrants linked to ISIS smuggling may have already left the country voluntarily.
In Central Asia, ISIS members facilitate the emigration of individuals from their home countries to the West, where they are then brought into the United States through human traffickers. It is unknown if ISIS gets its funding from smuggling people or if some of its members work the trade as a side hustle.
While they wait for court judgments on their stay, thousands of migrants from nations including China, Venezuela, and the Eastern Hemisphere are now in the United States. For reasons of prudence, federal law enforcement is giving these people high priority for arrest on immigration offenses. Some of the arrested or deported individuals have been charged with immigration infractions, but no charges of terrorism-related offenses have been brought up.
In response to the information, some Republicans, including the Trump campaign, have accused the Biden administration of endangering the country and its citizens by allowing ISIS to exploit the administration’s apathy toward border security.
No one is turned away at President Biden’s border, according to House Homeland Security Committee head and Tennessee Republican Mark Green. This includes individuals from troublesome nations.
There has been little evidence of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in recent years, according to counterterrorism authorities. Since October, little under one out of every seven thousand migrants screened by CBP had their identities matched with those on the terrorist blacklist. This accounts for 0.014% of all interactions with CBP.
However, some present and past U.S. officials are raising the alarm that border vetting has to be strengthened for the benefit of national security.
The officials believe that the United States is seeing a surge in immigration from nations that do not usually exchange criminal records and information with other countries, such as China, Venezuela, and others in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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