Get the Facts: Terrorists at the Border
Biden’s border crisis has left us vulnerable. We’ve seen criminal gangs, human trafficking, drug smuggling, murder, and more. Still, there could be something lurking that’s even more sinister. Between October 2020 and May 2024, more than 1,500 Tajik nationals crossed our Southern Border. In the 14 years prior, only 26 crossed. Bordering both China and Afghanistan, Tajikistan is known as a hotbed of ISIS recruitment, which coincidentally has skyrocketed under the Biden Administration. Many of these migrants come with potentially falsified or incomplete documentation and claim asylum once caught before then dispersing throughout the United States while awaiting their court hearing which could be 3, 5, or more years in the future. Thus, the surge in Tajik nationals has many experts on high alert, including University of Michigan professor and former counterterrorism official Javed Ali who said the surge may be ISIS’s way of, “seeding people into the United States” in preparations for a potential terrorist attack. Although it is true that many of the migrants coming here are simply looking for a better life, Biden’s open-border policies leave out the very real threat an open border poses to our nation. Just this year, we have seen the news where young girls and women have been raped and murdered, NYPD officers have been assaulted, a state trooper in Washington State was killed, and that’s not even counting the thousands of Americans who have died as a result of the fentanyl being smuggled across the border. It is vital that we remain watchful and pass significant border security policies, like the House’s H.R. 2, if we want to stand any chance in keeping the American people safe. We’ve already spent years fighting the war on terror abroad, but the Biden Administration’s negligence at the Southern Border could have us fighting it here at home as well. |