Latest News Reports Remind Us of the Jihadist Threat on the Southern Border

In January we published a report citing numerous examples of Jihadi activity on the southern U.S. border:

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This week in the news, three stories surfaced from different news agencies which illustrate that the threat from jihad through Latin America persists:

• The Jerusalem Post reports that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters that Mexico’s security cabinet was responding to intelligence that members of the Islamic State could enter Mexico:

Mexico President Says Looking at Information About ISIS Members

• In a seemingly closely related report, Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies writes that a captured Islamic State jihadi confessed that he had been recruited to penetrate the U.S. southern border through “migration” routes through Latin America and Mexico:

What To Make of a Report on ISIS Plans to Breach the U.S.-Mexico Border?

• Meanwhile, Reuters reports that 4 Islamic State jihadis were apprehended by Nicaraguan troops crossing into Nicaragua from Costa Rica. Two of the jihadis were Egyptian and two were Iraqi:

Nicaragua arrests four men suspected of ties to Islamic State

• Finally, in what may be the worst-kept secret in South America, General Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera, the former head of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas

Maduro’s intelligence police, told the Washington Post that Hezbollah was indeed operating in Venezuela.

Many people, especially on the Left, dismiss the idea that our porous, vulnerable southern border could provide a gateway from jihad. The reality is that the jihadists have seen that vulnerability and are positioned to exploit it…and four news reports from this week alone make clear.

It is past time for Congress to act to secure our border.