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(NewsNation) — The House Committee connected Homeland Security has demanded answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding caller arrests of suspected terrorists astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a letter, committee Chairman Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., cited the detention of three Palestinian nationals and 1 Turkish nationalist with alleged violent ties who crossed into the U.S. illegally successful July.
Green called the incidents portion of a "systemic problem" successful the emergence of known oregon suspected terrorists entering the country. The committee requested respective documents by August 27, including:
- Complete alien files and deportation records for the 4 individuals arrested
- Information from the Terrorist Screening Data Set related to the suspects
- Documents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection databases concerning the arrests
"We are facing much than conscionable a borderline situation – this is simply a full-blown nationalist information catastrophe," Green said successful a connection obtained by NewsNation. He blamed the Biden administration's borderline policies for overwhelming Border Patrol agents and making thorough vetting difficult.
The missive besides referenced caller arrests of eight Tajikistani nationals with alleged ISIS ties and implicit 400 migrants linked to an ISIS-affiliated smuggling network.
Committee leaders expressed concern astir imaginable "lone wolf" violent attacks and criticized the medication for "dangerously failing to instrumentality measures to safeguard U.S. nationalist security."
In June 2024, President Joe Biden released a bid of enforcement actions capping migrant crossing until borderline encounters stay consistently debased — under 2,500 per day for an full week — to springiness Border Patrol much clip to grip each migrant’s situation.
The president besides clarified his usage of enforcement powers, saying helium was doing what Congress would not astir a bipartisan migration woody that failed successful the Senate aft erstwhile President Donald Trump urged GOP lawmakers to ballot against it.
Wray antecedently testified earlier Congress astir concerns that quality smuggling operations astatine the borderline were bringing successful radical with imaginable connections to panic groups.
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI person not yet commented connected the committee's requests.
