SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
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JUDICIAL WATCH
Record Fentanyl, Terrorists in Border Crisis DHS Says “Criminal Actors May Continue to Exploit”
Created after 9/11 to prevent another terrorist attack, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) keeps slamming Americans with grim news involving its struggles to fulfill its critical mission. Days after the agency admitted it lost track of more than 177,000 illegal immigrants freed inside the United States, it released a Homeland Threat Assessment that reveals a record number of people with terrorist ties have tried to enter the country through the Mexican border, migrant encounters along the northern border have also reached an all-time high and that terrorists and criminal actors may continue to exploit the “elevated flow” and “increasingly complex security environment to enter the United States.” The situation will only get worse because the agency responsible for safeguarding the country expects “continued high numbers of migrant encounters over the next year,” according to the new assessment which was created with “insights” from the intelligence community.
DHS is a monstrous federal agency with 260,000 employees and a whopping $58 billion annual budget that may seem to many like sufficient resources to succeed in its key mission of countering terrorism and securing the nation’s borders. The new report documents that the agency has not only failed miserably to secure the famously porous southern border, but its northern counterpart as well. Through June illegal immigrant encounters along the northern border have reached record highs, the new report states, with over 132,000 migrants compared to 68,000 during the same amount of time last fiscal year. Among the most concerning information provided in the document is the increase in foreigners with terrorism connections trying to sneak into the country. As of July, approximately 160 individuals that appear on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) terrorist watchlist attempted to enter the U.S. via Mexico compared to 100 in all fiscal year 2022.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/record-fentanyl-border-crisis/
