Did migrants from Hamas cross into US after Oct. 7? 

(NewsNation) — Just weeks aft the deadly Hamas panic onslaught connected Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel's consequent penetration of Gaza, borderline patrol agents were warned of related actors attempting cross into the United States.

According to a memo to U.S. borderline patrol agents obtained by NewsNation, imaginable overseas violent fighters engaged successful the Israel-Hamas struggle and with potential ties to Hamas oregon Hezbollah could beryllium entering the United States via the confederate border.

The document, circulated among CBP agents and shared by the San Diego Customs and Border Protection office, specifically mentions Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hezbollah.

At the clip of the memo, national agents connected the borderline were already overwhelmed by grounds numbers of migrants crossing into the U.S.

Nearly one twelvemonth later, much than 460 individuals connected the terror "watch list" person been apprehended by borderline patrol and tract operations agents. 

In February, an Afghan migrant connected the database was arrested aft spending astir a twelvemonth successful the U.S. During his clip successful the states, helium was doubly released backmost into the country.

In June, eight Tajik nationals were arrested for imaginable ties to ISIS. At slightest 3 of these individuals connected the panic ticker database entered the state legally done the CBP One App — and were aboriginal released.

In August, 3 Palestinian Nationals and 1 Turkish nationalist entered the U.S. illegally and were recovered to person violent ties. 

On Friday, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security released a associated statement saying that Oct. 7, 2024, could service arsenic the backdrop for convulsive extremists successful the U.S. and globally.

The agencies besides accidental the menace is not lone from organized overseas violent groups, but from individuals. They accidental that online messaging highlighting the October 7 day could animate radical to enactment alone, attacking with small oregon nary warning.

In a abstracted notice, the FBI said that “it is indispensable to beryllium watchful for threats against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities and institutions and to instantly interaction instrumentality enforcement to study immoderate suspicious activity.”

NewsNation's Ali Bradley and Rich Johnson contributed to this report.