Homeland Security chairman: ISIS already here
Dozens arrested, but 'it's a very hard thing to stop'
Published: 11 hours ago
Evidence that members of ISIS or another jihadist groups have entered the U.S. through the southern border has been reported several times, including when a Washington watchdog organization said four “Islamic terrorists” were caught in Texas in a period of just 36 hours.
The 2014 report from Judicial Watch said the arrests, confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, were made in McAllen and Pharr.
About the same time, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., disclosed in a TV interview that ISIS jihadists were captured coming into the U.S. from Mexico.
“They were caught at the border … therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border,” he said. “If they catch five or 10 of them, we know there are dozens more that did not get caught.”
Rick Perry, then governor of Texas, had just warned a Heritage Foundation audience that ISIS militants “may have already slipped across the Mexican border.”
Now the chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, has reiterated the warning, revealing that dozens of ISIS members already have been arrested inside the U.S.
“We have arrested over 80 ISIS followers in the United States. We’ve found 75 plots against the West, many of which we have stopped,” he said.
McCaul was speaking to reporters on the “Inside Texas Politics” program for WFAA television in Dallas.
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