Terrorist Infiltration Threat at the Southwest Border
The national security gap in America’s immigration enforcement debate
By Todd Bensman on August 13, 2018
On June 24, 2016 — during the waning days of President Barack Obama's administration — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson sent a three-page memorandum to 10 top law enforcement chiefs responsible for border security.1 The subject line referenced a terrorism threat at the nation's land borders that had been scarcely acknowledged by the Obama administration during its previous seven years. So far, it also has evaded much mention in national debate over Trump administration immigration policy.
The subject line read: "Cross-Border Movement of Special Interest Aliens".
What followed were orders, unusual in the sense that they demanded the "immediate attention" of the nation's most senior immigration and border security leaders to counter such an obscure terrorism threat.
https://cis.org/Report/Terrorist-Infiltration-Threat-Southwest-Border
