Report: Biden-Harris DHS Freed At Least 99 ‘Terrorist Watchlist’ Migrants into U.S.

A bombshell interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement reveals the extent to which President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released migrants on the government’s “terrorist watchlist” into the United States.

Since the start of 2021, when Biden and Harris took office, the DHS has imposed an expansive Catch and Release network that seeks to funnel thousands of migrants into American communities daily as they await deportation hearings.

The subcommittee’s interim staff report details how the DHS, from fiscal years 2021 to 2023, released migrants on the federal government’s terrorist watchlist — a database that lists those foreign nationals directly involved in terrorism and those who have a nexus to terrorism — into the U.S.

The report states:

Under the Biden-Harris administration, of the more than 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist who were encountered by Border Patrol at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, DHS has released into American communities at least 99, with at least 34 others in DHS custody but not yet removed from the United States.

It continues:

Between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, Border Patrol at the southwest border encountered aliens on the terrorist watchlist from 36 different countries, including places with an active terrorist presence such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. [Emphasis added]

So far during fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol has encountered tens of thousands of illegal aliens nationwide from countries that could present national security risks {snip}[Emphasis added]

In June, reports circulated that federal agents had arrested eight Tajikistani migrants linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) after they crossed the southern border into the U.S.

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Federal immigration judges are also implicated in the report, which alleges that at least 27 migrants on the terrorist watchlist had been allowed to bond out of DHS detention from fiscal years 2021 through 2023.

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