As the White House continues publicly insisting that the border is secure, they’ve been confronted with reports that an ISIS sympathizer has been successfully smuggling supposed asylum seekers across the southern border into the U.S.
According to the New York Post:
The FBI is reportedly scrambling to find more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who sought asylum in the U.S. earlier this year after intelligence officers discovered they traveled to the southern border with the help of a smuggler who has ties to ISIS.
Officials are working to “identify and assess” all of the individuals who gained entry into the country, National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson told CNN. They are also scrutinizing a number of migrants as possible criminal threats, two unnamed federal officials told the news network. But authorities say no specific ISIS plot has been identified.
Authorities say the migrants requested asylum at the border with Mexico earlier this year and were screened by Homeland Security.
While performing damage control, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted to spin the news by assuring the American public that there at least wasn’t any evidence the people this ISIS sympathizer brought into the U.S. were terrorists themselves, overlooking the obvious fact that this story shows the border is wide open for any terrorists want to enter. “There's no sign that anyone moved by the smuggling network has terrorism connections,” she told Peter Doocy. “So we want to be clear there as well.”
Contrary to the narrative coming from the Biden administration, the situation at the border has never been worse. The numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection speak for themselves; while CBP averaged under 500k encounters with illegals every year during the Trump administration, they saw over 1.66 million the first year of the Biden presidency, over 2.2 million in fiscal year 2022, and 1.66 million so far this fiscal year. In FY 2022 alone, more CBP had more encounters with illegals than the entire Trump presidency combined, plus 235,000.
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