Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social this week to issue a warning to Americans in the wake of Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel: similar efforts by the terror group could happen stateside due to the porous U.S.-Mexico border.
“The fight in GAZA is ‘coming home’ to the USA,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The tens of thousands of strong young men from the Middle East, that have already ‘invaded’ our Country, and are continuing to come, totally unchecked, will become a problem the likes of which we have never seen before.”
The fight in GAZA is “coming home” to the USA. The tens of thousands of strong young men from the Middle East, that have already “invaded” our Country, and are continuing to come, totally unchecked, will become a problem the likes of which we have never seen before. Crooked Joe…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) October 23, 2023
Under President Biden, Customs and Border Protection has already arrested 282 illegal immigrants on the terror watch list, but there are more than 1.6 million known ‘gotaways,’ or people who have evaded law enforcement altogether and are currently in the interior.
CBP data released earlier this month also show the number of “special interest” illegal immigrants from the Middle East has skyrocketed.
NEW: Internal CBP data provided & confirmed by CBP sources reveals thousands of “special interest aliens” from mostly Middle Eastern countries have been apprehended by Border Patrol while crossing into U.S. illegally over last 2 years.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 10, 2023
Syria: 538
Yemen: 139
Iran: 659
Iraq: 123…
"We have to act like the sleeper cells are already here in the U.S. and preemptively find them, and they should be detained," Director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation told "FOX & Friends" on Tuesday.
169 people on the terror watchlist have entered the country in the past YEAR.
— Cody Sargent (@codydsargent) October 24, 2023
That’s up from 3 in 2020 before @JoeBiden took office.
As @Lora_Ries explained to @LawrenceBJones3, “…we have to act like the sleeper cells are already here…they know the border is wide open.” pic.twitter.com/lPWAsLdRx6