Are terrorists slipping across the US border? What the evidence shows.
In recent months, a string of national security figures has warned Congress there is a heightened threat of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
“Looking back over my career in law enforcement, I’d be hard-pressed to think of a time when so many different threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at once,” FBI Director Christopher Wray testified this spring. Part of that, he said, is an elevated threat of foreign terrorist organizations attacking the United States following the Hamas cross-border raid on Israel Oct. 7. “Obviously, their ability to exploit any point of entry, including our southwest border, is a source of concern,” he said in December.
Former President Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress argue that on President Joe Biden’s watch, the border crisis in migrants from China crossing the southern border illegally since 2021, many of them military-age males.
