ISIS In America – GOP Grills Team Biden On Threat

The Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives is exerting pressure on Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the DHS and Director Christopher Wray of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to divulge information about eight migrant men who were associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) and apprehended in the United States following their successful crossing of the southern border.

The FBI detained the eight ISIS-connected immigrant men last week in LA, Philadelphia, and New York City, after they all crossed the border into the interior of the United States. Breitbart News first revealed this information.

According to reports, the CBP One mobile app, which helps migrants in Mexico arrange appointments for release into the U.S. interior at Ports of Entry along the border, is responsible for at least one of the eight direct releases by President Joe Biden’s DHS.

The FBI later discovered that all Tajikistan-born migrant men may have had ISIS ties.

Reps. Mark Green (R-TN), August Pfluger (R-TX), Dan Bishop (R-NC), and Clay Higgins (R-LA) wrote to Mayorkas and Wray stating that they find the “pattern” of possible terrorists crossing the border to be “alarming.”

They write, “Reports suggest that two of the eight people crossed the US Southwest Border in spring 2023, and one used the CBP One App to book an inspection before entry,” but they don’t know how each person entered the country.

“Unfortunately, under this administration, the intolerable security lapses that have made it possible for people with terrorist connections to enter the country through the Southwest Border have developed into a concerning trend. On April 3, 2024, the Committee requested information from Secretary Mayorkas regarding two instances where ICE released individuals on a federal terrorist watchlist, with at least one instance resulting from errors in ICE’s internal database. The requests made by the committee in that letter are still unfulfilled.”

“Since that letter, the Committee has learned that on March 12, 2023, ICE released Mohammad Kharwin from custody and placed him in the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program. His first arrest for crossing the border illegally occurred in San Ysidro, California, barely two days earlier. As per the terms of his release, Kharwin was free to apply for work authorization and travel anywhere in the United States without any restrictions—as long as he called an ICE agent on a regular basis to report to them. Almost a year later, the FBI’s confirmation of Kharwin’s Hezb-e-Islami membership led to his arrest by ICE in San Antonio, Texas.”

“The Department’s emphasis on catch, process, and release poses a serious risk to the security of the country. The Committee has forcefully and repeatedly brought to light the security vulnerabilities posed by the unprecedented number of gotaways evading capture, the inadequate screening of the illegal aliens released by the Department in large quantities, and the massive influx of illegal aliens at our border. Still, the Department and the Biden Administration ignore the “blinking red lights everywhere” and keep their heads in the sand.

Republicans demanded access to all internal government correspondence regarding the eight immigrant men the FBI has arrested and linked to ISIS. They have also requested a briefing on Mayorkas and Wray’s arrests by July 2.

They argue that “the arrest of eight ISIS-affiliated males in American territory is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that terrorist groups are, in fact, taking advantage of our border to potentially launch an assault on American territory.”

Since the start of Fiscal Year 2021, the border has detained nearly 400 migrants who are on the Terrorist Watch List as they attempt to enter the country.