Alarm bells are ringing
As of June 26, Department of Homeland Security identified 400 migrants who have been smuggled into the United States via networks affiliated with the Islamic terror group ISIS.
The government department admitted the whereabouts of 50 of those people was still unknown. As of June 20 this year a further 90 suspected terrorists were encountered and stopped at the Southern Border.
Those fiendish undesirables are not alone. As a map assembled by The Post shows, from one end of the United States to the other, intelligence failures between government departments have allowed potential terrorists over the border.
Once their terror ties are realized, the FBI and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement then have to locate the individuals — sometimes years after they were admitted.
Although the DHS tries to keep most of these situations under wraps, The Post has identified cases involving 16 individuals from California to North Carolina who were hiding in plain sight, often blending in among the millions of migrants who have crossed into the US in recent years.
“If I am in law enforcement, I am looking at this and saying there are way too many numbers for it to be a one-off,” Seamus Hughes, terrorism expert at University of Nebraska Omaha, told The Post, while speaking of breaches at the Southern Border.
“Alarm bells are ringing and it is a significant concern for law enforcement.”