Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, spoke with Fox News this week about the national security threat represented by the Biden administration’s open-borders policy. She says that 7.4 million illegal migrants have been encountered by the CBP so far during Biden’s tenure, while at the same time, an estimated 1.7 million “got-aways” have come in unhindered.
[W]hen you combine 1.7 million with the 7.4 million CBP has encountered, we have to assume that the sleeper cells of terrorists are here inside the U.S., and Congress needs to wake up and preempt.
Comparing our situation with that of Israel, now at war with Hamas terrorists, she said:
And already with the Hamas, pro-Hamas protests in the U.S. this week in New York City and elsewhere. That was a very public signal to say, “Yes, we’re here.” And if the U.S. acts to support Israel in the Middle East then there will be a response here. They don’t need to fly in on their Mad Max devices like they did this past weekend in Israel. They’re already here.
(Earlier this week, we reported that 61,000+ natives of “Special Interest” countries have entered the U.S. in the past two years, along with more than 24,000 Chinese, widely suspected to include potential spies and saboteurs.)
Specifically, Ries said in fiscal year 2023, a record 151 people on the FBI terror watchlist were encountered, more than the previous six years combined. She said DHS secretary Mayorkas had been asked repeatedly about the fate of those 151, but that he has “refused to answer.”
Sounding the warning was also Hollywood star James Woods, who tweeted on October 8:
Pundits are wailing about intelligence failures that led to the terrorist slaughter perpetrated by Hamas against children and woman. Yet not one liberal apologist has considered that an equivalent silent army is surely walking across Biden’s non-existent border every day.
Meanwhile, Mayorkas’s DHS continues to talk the talk:
Our multilayered border security efforts include various screening and vetting processes that work to detect and prevent individuals who pose national security or public safety risks from entering the United States. [We do] not have specific and credible intelligence indicating a threat to the United States. . . .
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