Jordan Boyd writes for the Federalist about the negative impact of Democrats’ approach to border security.
U.S. counterterrorism agencies are on high alert for potential retaliation after the American government joined Israel in launching a coordinated operation named Epic Fury against Iran over the weekend.
Already, at least two Americans have died and more than a dozen have been injured after a 53-year-old gunman, reportedly clothed in an Iranian flag T-shirt and “Property of Allah” sweatshirt, opened fire at an Austin bar one day after the strikes commenced. …
… Fears that Islamic radicals were solidifying their hold in the hometowns of Americans only increased when Democrats and the Biden administration opened the floodgates for millions of foreigners, including Iranians, to illegally enter and stay in the U.S. This drastic lapse in national security came just one year after Iran vowed revenge against President Donald Trump and Americans for the January 2020 assassination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani.
Between the 2021 and 2024 fiscal years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 1,504 Iranian nationals. Nearly half of them, 729, were ultimately released into the U.S. Tens of thousands of suspected terrorists also took advantage of Democrats’ catch-and-release regime to wheedle their way into the states.
Some Iranians could have slipped into the U.S. as some of the estimated 1.7 million gotaways who evaded Border Patrol after finding their way through the southern border, many of whom took flights to countries south of the border and then traveled north. Others were smuggled across the U.S.-Canada border with “fraudulent or altered passports.” Though under Biden, they didn’t really have to sneak around.
Despite originating from one of the 24 nations designated as “national security concern[s]” due to Islamic terrorism affiliations, Iranians were affirmatively authorized entry to America as “special interest aliens” (SIAs) under the Biden administration’s CBP One app expansions.
