National security experts sound off after arrests of eight ISIS-linked border crossers

Editor’s Note: This piece by Debra Heine features quotes from CSP Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Kyle Shideler.

Joe Biden’s open border policies have left the United States vulnerable to terrorist attacks, national security experts are warning after eight suspected terrorists with ties to ISIS were arrested in sting operation in New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

The Tajikistan nationals crossed the southern border into the United States in 2023, and were processed by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

At least two of the suspects reportedly crossed into the US in spring 2023, and one had used the CBP One app to enter.

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Kyle Shideler, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, told American Greatness that the Biden regime’s “misguided” approach to immigration has made it nearly impossible to vet migrants at the border.

“This most recent incident is a reflection of not just the national security disaster at the open border, where terror watch list encounters have skyrocketed from 3 in 2020 to 169 in 2023, but is an example of how the current approach to immigration is misguided,” he said.

“There is no intelligence or database capability you can use to realistically vet illegal aliens, asylum seekers, and refugees at the industrial scale in which the Biden administration is importing them from countries which are riddled with jihadist sympathies and ideologies hostile to our way of life.”

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