The Biden administration admitted roughly 18,000 known or suspected terrorists into the United States, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent told the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday.
Kent testified that 2,000 of the 18,000 came through the Biden administration’s “Operation Allies Welcome” program, which brought tens of thousands of Afghans into the country after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He stressed that the remaining 16,000 individuals also had ties to terrorist organizations and were allowed in under Biden’s watch.
Even more alarming, Kent said the 18,000 figure does not include the unknown number of terrorists who entered after illegally crossing the southern border.
“We’re working right now hand in hand with DHS and with the FBI to run down this 2,000 — the Afghans that came here under Operation Allies Welcome who have ties to terrorist organizations, and additionally the other 16,000 individuals with ties to terrorist organizations that Biden let into our country,” Kent said.
“That is probably the top terrorist threat that we face right now, and that doesn’t include the individuals that came here illegally through the open border. That number alarmingly remains unknown. We’re trying to figure out who those individuals are as well,” he added.
Kent pointed to the recent case of an Afghan national who was allowed into the country by the Biden administration and later opened fire on two National Guard soldiers deployed to Washington, D.C., killing one. He said Biden officials created a “ruse” to justify letting him in.
“These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda,” Kent said. “Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country, but in many cases facilitated their entry — just like the Afghan terrorist who committed the attack before Thanksgiving.”
The Afghan suspect arrived as part of a group of more than 100,000 Afghans brought into the U.S. during the chaotic withdrawal. Despite repeated assurances from Biden officials, Kent said the individuals “were not vetted properly.”
He warned that the United States is now facing a rapidly growing national security crisis created entirely by the administration’s border and immigration failures.
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