Deroy Murdock: Yes, U.S. has nabbed terrorists at border

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Deroy Murdock: Yes, U.S. has nabbed terrorists at border

TRUE OR FALSE: Federal agents have caught terrorists on the southern frontier.

True!

Meet nine of them:

• Abdullah Omar Fidse walked across a bridge over the Rio Grande, from Reynosa, Mexico, to Hidalgo, Texas, in June 2008. He requested asylum, claiming to be a Somali refugee. While in custody for years as officials weighed his case, Fidse told another detainee that he supported al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab. His cellphone memory card included the telephone number of Mohamed Suleiman, subsequently arrested for aiding a 2010 al-Shabab suicide-bomb attack in Uganda, which killed 70 soccer fans.

Fidse eventually admitted to an undercover informant: “We are terrorists.” As the Center for Immigration Studies’ Todd Bensman reports, Fidse “believed all good Muslims must commit two acts of jihad a year.”

U.S. officials scotched Fidse’s asylum claim, prosecuted him for lying to federal agents, and sent him to prison for eight years.

Read more at: https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/columnists/deroy-murdock-yes-u-s-has-nabbed-terrorists-at-border/article_1b81c007-d6f3-528c-8d28-0550f975d165.html