What Became of the Obama-Era Program to Counter Terrorist Infiltration at the Southern Border?
Two senators take a cue from CIS reports to question the Trump administration
By Todd Bensman on February 25, 2019
Last August, the Center for Immigration Studies exclusively published a three-page memorandum by former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, addressed to 10 of his top agency chiefs. It ordered a secret full-scale enforcement program to suppress "special interest alien" migration from the Middle East to the U.S. southern border through Latin America and highlighted its inherent potential for terrorist infiltration.
The Obama-era Democratic cabinet appointee's June 2016 order obviously demolishes a currently popular narrative on the political left that President Donald Trump's stated concerns about terrorist border infiltration are discreditable and isolated to fringe conspiracy theorists. Not exactly a fringe conspiracy kind of guy, Johnson wrote that special interest alien (SIA) migration from terrorism-spawning countries in the Middle East through Latin America to the southern border was an urgent national security threat, and on that basis, ordered a comprehensive intelligence and enforcement program to stop it.
https://cis.org/Bensman/What-Became-ObamaEra-Program-Counter-Terrorist-Infiltration-Southern-Border
