About the Iraqi Asylum Seeker Who Allegedly Wanted to Import an ISIS Terrorist Hit Squad

An Ohio FBI criminal complaint from a complex sting investigation alleges that a self-proclaimed ISIS fighter seeking asylum in the Buckeye State, who claimed to have killed "Many Americans in Iraq between 2003 and 2006" while operating in a hit squad called "Thunder," plotted to smuggle up to eight of his brethren over the southern border to kill former President George W. Bush at his Dallas residence.

These sorts of border crossings, while relatively rare and always of concern to American homeland security, must be regarded as especially problematic now because they are happening during a historic and ongoing mass migration crisis that has all but collapsed normal border management systems.

Since President Joe Biden took office and reversed all of his predecessor's tough deterrence-based illegal immigration control policies, Border Patrol has apprehended nearly 2.5 million people crossing the border, more than 200,000 a month recently, the highest numbers since the country began keeping records in 1960.

As I have reported extensively in my book and elsewhere, a dozen European countries suffered terror attacks and plots without end once ISIS realized that a mass migration crisis had collapsed all European Union border management systems in 2015-2016 and deliberately trained and dispatched operatives to pose as asylum seekers.

The Ohio case demonstrates that Shihab - and presumably the Hezbollah agents he claimed to have already smuggled over the border - understood the border was vulnerable and that the "Dirty" operatives he brought in stood a smaller chance of getting caught there than if they were to fly in as he did on a tourist visa.

Increasing evidence strongly indicates that the counterterrorism programs publicly revealed for the first time in America's Covert Border War are foundering under the border crisis and failing to catch infiltrating terrorists.

In the chaos of thousands of immigrants with whom Garcia-Amado poured through, Border Patrol released the suspected terrorist and gave him a GPS monitoring device as an alternative to detention, a common way now for the agency to process the hundreds of thousands of migrants overwhelming detention centers and normal processes.

https://townhall.com/columnists/toddbensman/2022/05/27/about-the-iraqi-asylum-seeker-who-allegedly-wanted-to-import-an-isis-terrorist-hit-squad-over-the-mexican-border-n2607867