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| 2023-02-02 | |
| [FoxNews] Texas authorities caught 29-year-old Alireza Heidari being smuggled in vehicle. Texas law enforcement arrested an Iranian illegal immigrant at the southern border last week whose name and date of birth were initially flagged as a match on the FBI’s terror watchlist, but who a DHS official tells Fox News was ultimately determined not to be a match on the database after further vetting. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested 29-year-old Alireza Heidari last week after a traffic stop involving a human smuggler at the border in Val Verde County, Texas as part of Operation Lone Star. Heidari was being smuggled in the vehicle along with four other illegal immigrants. He was located in the trunk. Fox is told that Heidari was handed over to Border Patrol custody and later determined to be a match of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). Fox reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Thursday and multiple times since. Only on Tuesday did DHS refer Fox to the FBI, which declined to comment. The FBI’s website says it does not confirm anyone’s status on the watchlist.
The FBI's TSDB contains information about the identities of those who are "reasonably suspected" of being involved in terrorism or related activities. There were 17 people stopped by Border Patrol in December alone whose names matched on the list. That brings the total of individuals arrested at the southern border between ports of entry to 38 since October. There were 98 terror watchlist arrests in FY22, 15 in FY21 and just three in FY 20 at the southern border caught between ports of entry. At the ports of entry at the northern and southern borders, meanwhile, CBP’s Office of Field Operations has encountered 125 people on the TSDB so far this fiscal year. In FY 2022 there were 380 apprehensions, 157 in FY21 and 196 in FY20. The increase in apprehensions between ports of entry has raised concerns that, amid a historic spike in illegal immigration across the southern border, illegal criminals and terrorists could be slipping by overwhelmed Border Patrol agents. So far this fiscal year, nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants have evaded Border Patrol, with an average of 2,450 a day in the last 120 days, sources told Fox News last week. In fiscal 2022, there were nearly 600,000 gotaways. There were 389,155 gotaways at the border in fiscal 2021, and fiscal 2023 is on track to easily outpace those numbers. Last week, agents told Fox News there have been more than 1.2 million gotaways during the Biden administration. Tom Homan, a former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, told Fox News on Saturday that the number should "scare the hell out of every American" and said there was a reason these migrants are not turning themselves in to Border Patrol to be processed and released into the U.S. "Why would they not take advantage of the program? Because they don't want to be fingerprinted, and there's a reason for that." Related: Val Verde County: 2023-01-16 Texas men arrested near Mexico border after trooper finds illegal immigrants in trunk of car Val Verde County: 2021-08-12 Texas bans secretive Chinese billionaire who spent $110m quietly buying-up land from setting up 15,000 acre wind farm amid fears turbines could be fitted with spying equipment or used by Chinese government to cripple energy grid Val Verde County: 2021-07-24 Texas Begins Arresting Illegal Immigrants for Trespassing as Part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Border Security Plan Related: Operation Lone Star: 2023-01-03 Shootouts, pursuits, break-ins surge in Texas counties near border Operation Lone Star: 2022-12-29 Texas National Guard Builds 2 Miles of Razor Wire Border Fencing near El Paso Operation Lone Star: 2022-12-14 Texas governor launches new border task force to track and apprehend gotaways Related: Terrorist Screening Database: 2023-01-22 TSA 'no fly' list leaked after being found on unsecured airline server Terrorist Screening Database: 2022-01-19 Texas synagogue hostage-taker was known to MI5 Terrorist Screening Database: 2021-10-20 1600 Migrants Apprehended in Southern Arizona over Weekend | |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #1 How is this not causing massive public anger at the purposeful abandonment of our sovereign borders for political advantage by the democrats? For every suspect caught, how many more have disappeared into the interior and find waiting support systems at a radical mosque in a major urban area? "Border enforcement officials apprehended more than three dozen people named on the federal terrorism watchlist at the US-Mexico frontier in the final three months of 2022 — after a record number of terror suspects were caught in the 12 months ending Sept. 30 last year. According to US Customs and Border Protection, 38 people identified as known terrorists, suspected terrorists or associates of both were stopped while attempting to cross into the US between official points of entry since Oct. 1. In fiscal year 2022, CBP apprehended 98 people whose names appeared on the terror watchlist trying enter the US illegally. That number is on pace to top 150 in fiscal year 2023." https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/38-terror-watchlist-arrests-made-at-borders-since-october/ |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-02-02 15:13 |