The Biden administration released a terrorist in March to roam the country, and another might have entered the country just last week.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) caught the released terrorist on January 20. The second, who told a journalist that he, the journalist, would soon learn his identity, is apparently still running free.
More than 700 terror suspects tried to cross the border illegally or at ports of entry in fiscal 2023, and almost 150 have done likewise in fiscal 2024.
Caught at the Border, Then Released
Citing a government memorandum, the Daily Caller revealed that the terrorist the open-borders Biden administration released was caught nine days ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“The unnamed individual, who the memo only identifies as a member of the Somali terror group al-Shabaab, was released shortly after being caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Ysidro, California on March 13, 2023, according to the memo, which the [Daily Caller News Foundation] is not publishing in order to protect the identity of a confidential source,” the website reported:
The Terrorist Screening Center “deemed him a ‘mismatch’” after running his name through the terror watch list, according to the memo, which was sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
However, on January 18, 2024, the Terrorist Screening Center “made a redetermination” that the individual was “a confirmed member of al-Shabaab” and was involved in the use, manufacture or transport of explosives or firearms, the memo states. Two days later, ICE nabbed the al-Shabaab member in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Though the administration has said it properly vets the illegal aliens it invites to colonize the American heartland, that isn’t quite the case.
Former ICE official John Fabbricatore told the Daily Caller that “terrorists are able to freely roam the United States for months after being released at the border before their criminal and terrorist histories come to light.”
One ICE official, a former Border Patrol agent, told the Daily Caller that illegals are released before they are vetted. “People have been released prior to completed records checks being returned on a subject,” he said. “Which would not allow proper processing and placement of a potential terrorist once those results were known.”
Al-Shabaab is a Somali terror outfit known for suicide bombings and assassinations, says the Counter Terrorism Guide published by the Director of National Intelligence:
Since 2013 al-Shabaab has launched high-profile operations in neighboring countries, most notably the September 2013 Westgate mall attack in Nairobi, the May 2014 attack against a restaurant in Djibouti popular with Westerners, and the April 2015 massacre of university students in Garissa, Kenya. The Westgate attack killed 67 Kenyan and non-Kenyan nationals, and a siege continued at the mall for several days. The Garissa attack killed some 150 mainly Christian students.
Al-Shabaab is responsible for the assassination of Somali peace activists, international aid workers, numerous civil society figures, and journalists, and for blocking the delivery of aid from some Western relief agencies during the 2011 famine that killed tens of thousands of Somalis.
The terrorist undoubtedly felt at home in Minneapolis, now a colony of Somalia where the Muslim call to prayer is heard on loudspeakers. The city is also a major recruiting center for al-Shabaab.
Its representative in Congress is Muslim Democrat Ilhan Omar. The GOP booted her off the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year for “antisemitic” comments that made her a national security risk.
Soon You Will Know Who I Am
Last week, a reporter at the border X posted video of a “migrant” who appeared to be Middle Eastern.
When the reporter asked him to identify himself, the “migrant” answered this way:
If you are smart enough, you would know who I am, But you are really not smart enough to know who I am. But soon you’re gonna know who I am.
Some X users identified the man as Movsum Samadov, chairman of the Azerbaijan Islamic Party and a terrorist recently released after 12 years in prison. The paywalled TRAC terrorism database said that claim is false.
Terror Suspects at the Border
In fiscal 2023, 736 terror suspects were stopped at U.S. borders:
- 564 terror suspects showed up at ports of entry, 484 of them at the U.S.-Canadian border;
- 172 were caught trying to sneak into the country; 169 of those were, not surprisingly, caught at the southwest border.
Thus far in fiscal 2024, 144 have tried to enter the country:
- 94 landed at ports of entry, 89 of them at the northern border;
- 50 were caught trying to sneak in, all but one of them at the southwest border.
The Biden administration has released millions of illegals to roam the country, and millions more have slipped past the overburdened Border Patrol.
Most likely, the administration has unleashed hundreds of criminals and terrorists who will, some day, start killing Americans.
Click here to learn more about America’s dangerous immigration invasion, and what can — and must — be done about it.
