Self-Confessed Terrorist Will Be Deported, But Terror Threat Remains
March 17, 2025
An illegal alien who openly admitted he intended to carry out terror attacks in the U.S. will soon, finally, be deported. Lebanese national Basel Bassel Ebbadi entered the country in March 2024 near El Paso, Texas, and told U.S. Border Patrol that he was planning to travel to New York City and commit “jihad” with the intention of “killing people that was [sic] not Muslim.”
Ebbadi, who claimed to be a member of terror group Hezbollah, was detained by the Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT) and held in custody. Despite claiming afterward that he was not a terrorist and that his identity papers were stolen in Costa Rica, he was held and then scheduled for deportation. As a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman told Fox News, “If an individual poses a potential threat to national security or public safety, we deny admission, detain, remove, or refer them to other federal agencies for further vetting, investigation and/or prosecution as appropriate.”
Sadly, terrorists have been repeatedly encountered at America’s borders – particularly during the Biden administration. In February 2024, it emerged that an Afghan illegal alien, Mohammad Kharwin, was arrested after roaming freely in the country for nearly a year. Kharwin, a member of Islamist group Hezb-e-Islami, was initially released by Border Patrol after entering the United States and placed in the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, only to be taken out of the program after 16 days. At his court hearing, he was released again, freed on bond by an immigration judge. Fortunately, his ties to Hezb-e-Islami, which killed 9 Americans in Afghanistan, were later confirmed and he was finally detained by authorities.
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