Biden-Harris Admin Released at Least 99 Potential Terrorists

Biden-Harris Admin Released at Least 99 Potential Terrorists

The House Judiciary Committee discovered that President Joe Biden’s administration has released at least 99 potential terrorists since January 2021.

“Under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, of the more than 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist who were encountered by Border Patrol at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released nearly 100 of them, with at least 34 others in DHS custody but not yet removed from the United States,” the committee Republicans wrote in a news release.

Since 2021, the border patrol at the southern border has encountered illegal aliens on the terror watchlist from 36 countries.

The numbers do not include the gotaways or those who snuck in without any detection.

These include:

• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• Lebanon
• Kyrgyzstan
• Mauritania
• Pakistan
• Somalia
• Syria
• Tajikistan
• Turkey
• Uzbekistan
• Yemen

It hasn’t gotten better in Fiscal Year 2024, which began on October 1:

• 2,134 Afghan nationals
• 33,347 Chinese nationals
• 541 Iranian nationals
• 520 Syrian nationals
• 3,104 Uzbek nationals

One ICE official told the committee that the administration “has made it difficult for officers to arrest national security threats in the United States.”

Officials have trouble locating the illegal aliens because they don’t have a “digital footprint.”

The problem extends to the courts because immigration judges handed “bond to at least 27 aliens on the terrorist watchlist who were encountered between ports of entry at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023.”

Another four illegal aliens on the terror watch list received asylum from immigration judges.

An immigration judge canceled the cases against “two additional known or suspected terrorists.”

In June 2024, DHS “identified over 400 immigrants from central Asia and elsewhere” who crossed the border as “subjects of concern” since an ISI-affiliated human smuggling network helped them get here.

DHS released many into the country.

Officials arrested 150 of the illegal aliens. The others? Who knows where they are.

Then there’s the report of Tajikistan nationals in June 2024:

The activities of that ISIS-affiliated smuggling network are far from an isolated incident, as a press report in June 2024 exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested eight illegal aliens from Tajikistan who had “potential ties to ISIS.” According to one of the reports, “[t]he targets had all crossed the southern border and initial vetting by federal authorities didn’t turn up any negative information tied to their names.” That reality exposes the dangers of the Biden-Harris border crisis, as even potential terrorists can overcome “vetting” at the southwest border. For instance, three of the aliens were released into the United States after using CBP One,52 a phone application “the Biden [A]dministration created to allow migrants to book appointments to claim asylum.”53 The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force “began monitoring” the eight illegal aliens as part of its investigation into “a potential terrorist threat originating in central Europe.”

At the same time, though, the ICE official told the committee there might be “gaps in the information that DHS shares with immigration judges about whether an illegal alien should be detained due to to being a danger to the community or a flight risk.”

The judges also don’t have access to classified information.

“That lack of information also may explain why immigration judges granted bond to at least 27 watchlisted aliens who were encountered between ports of entry at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023,” wrote the Republicans. “Additionally, at least four watchlisted aliens were granted asylum by an immigration judge, with at least two additional known or suspected terrorists having their cases terminated by an immigration judge, allowing them to remain in the U.S. indefinitely.”

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