Intel Community Warns Biden of Terror Threat at Mexican Border

Immigrants with connections to Islamic terrorist groups have begun taking advantage of what one senior Customs and Border Protection official called "a porous border." In April, border patrol officers arrested two Yemeni nationals on a terrorist watch list.

"Our southern border is too easy to cross and everyone knows it, but unfortunately securing the border has become a partisan issue with Republicans in favor and Democrats against," Sen. Marco Rubio told the Free Beacon after reviewing the government document.

Multiple Democrats accused House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of lying when he said terror suspects had been caught at the border.

"Border patrol agents told us that it was not just people from Central and South America attempting to cross our border, but people from overseas countries thousands of miles away, including Yemen. And despite the increased security concerns, the vice president-the government official appointed to oversee the border crisis-has gone 70 days without traveling to the border."

The record number of border crossings have overwhelmed Customs and Border Protection officials, making it far more difficult to flag or monitor individuals with suspected ties to terrorist groups or hostile regimes.

"Terrorist and transnational criminal organizations are well aware of the stress immigration officials are facing. They're monitoring us from across the border and then sending kids and family groups over. Once the agents respond, the cartels increase smuggling activities because they know we've deployed resources which are limited," a senior border patrol official told the Free Beacon.

"We need to take the threat seriously and take immediate action to secure our border because terrorists are looking to exploit this known weakness," he said.
 

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