18,000 confirmed and suspected terrorists entered U.S. under Biden
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 11, 2025
The government has identified 18,000 known or suspected terrorists who reached the U.S. during the Biden administration, senior officials told Congress on Thursday.
Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said they represent a “persistent” threat inside the country.
“The No. 1 threat that we have right now in my view is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders,” Mr. Kent told the House Homeland Security Committee as part of a hearing on worldwide threats.
He said the 18,000 are just the ones his agency has been able to identify so far. He suggested that others could be lurking, particularly those who sneaked across the border.
Known or suspected terrorists, or KSTs as they are called in Washington-speak, are those whom the government has linked either directly to terrorist activities or deemed associates of those who are terrorists.
Mr. Kent said they would have been blocked under normal immigration procedures.
“Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry,” he said.
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