In a letter to Mayorkas on Wednesday, Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), as well as Reps. Clay Higgins (R-LA) and August Pfluger (R-TX), who chair subcommittees, asked Mayorkas to provide them with a classified briefing on several reported cases of
The congressmen write:
The first case involves a member of the U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization alShabaab. According to a news report, the alien was "caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Ysidro, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on March 13, 2023;" however, he was deemed a "mismatch" and was subsequently released into the interior. Almost one year later, the Terrorist Screening Center "made a redetermination" and confirmed the alien as a terrorist member of al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
, and then Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) located and arrested him. [Emphasis added]
The second case involves a Pak man allegedly on the terrorist watch list who illegally entered the United States but was apprehended by the Border Patrol the following day. Less than two weeks later, the Terrorist Screening Center confirmed his status on the "terror watchlist;" however, ICE eventually released him through the Alternatives to Detention program. [Emphasis added]
In addition to these unanswered requests for information, we are now facing a consistent stream of cases highlighted in the news of aliens allegedly on the terrorist watchlist either being apprehended at the border or discovered in the interior. [Emphasis added]
The congressmen noted Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...) Director Christopher Wray’s testimony last month before the Senate Intelligence Committee where he warned he is "very concerned" over the possibility of human smuggling networks to the U.S. with ties to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS).
"The Committee is concerned with DHS’s current practices in processing and releasing known or suspected snuffies encountered at the Southwest border," the congressmen write.
Mayorkas has been accused of withholding information related to