Among the threats posed to the American people from the open southern border is the concern that many terrorists have slipped into the U.S. undetected by officials.
According to internal CBP documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, federal agencies fear that individuals tied to terror groups Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah, have already entered the country illegally. Earlier this month, TPUSA reported on an internal data leak that revealed that more than 70,000 individuals from Middle Eastern nations have been encountered by federal agencies in the past two years, with thousands more likely slipping through.
In an interview with Frontlines, retired Texas DPS captain Jaeson Jones called the mass entry the “largest intelligence failure since 9/11.”
“San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” the memo obtained by Daily Caller News Foundation stated. “Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.”
In addition to the alarmingly high rate of illegal entries, Jones also warned that the illegal drug trafficking operations threaten American safety across the entire U.S. Jones told Turning Point USA’s Frontlines team that there is a “weaponization” of fentanyl, a deadly drug that is being purposefully brought into the U.S. to harm Americans.
“111,355 Americans dead from fentanyl. Think of that. From fentanyl and other drugs, within a 12-month period, from April 2022 to April of 2023, according to CDC data. Those were poisonings, most of those,” Jones explained. “It is the largest intelligence failure since 9/11.”
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Office of Field Operations have seized more than 27,000 pounds of fentanyl at the southern border throughout the fiscal year 2023, marking the third year in a row that the drug has poured into the U.S. and plagued American cities.
