If there’s any doubt that open borders are a terrorist’s bonanza, the evidence is starting to materialize.
According to the New York Post:
Six Russian nationals suspected to have terror ties to ISIS have been arrested in a coordinated sting operation spanning Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Two ICE sources confirmed to The Post they arrested the six people, who hail from Tajikistan, over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn it.
Two others who were part of the same group were also arrested after being under surveillance for “several months” by a multi-agency Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to NBC.
Part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs, the sources said.
This would probably explain why individuals from Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are on the list of “mandatory referral countries” for expedited removal, unlike nationals of every other country in the Eastern and much of the Western hemispheres. I was a little flippant about the Moldovans when I wrote about it here.
It sounds like a serious case, and in all likelihood, the government was trying to make an effort to stop the terrorists at the border, which didn’t happen, not with the kinds of numbers coming through without papers, either for Border Patrol “processing,” or as “gotaways.”
Every minute spent “processing” an illegal migrant is a minute taken away from the Border Patrol to hunt for terrorists.
The thing is, this is not the first group of illegal border crossers attempting to engage in these acts.
Last month, two illegal border crossers from Jordan were apprehended at Quantico Marine base, on what authorities suspected was a terrorist “dry run.”
Hellbound and Down 