Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn has written a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers after eight Tajikistani nationals with suspected ties to ISIS were arrested after crossing the southern border.
“These individuals crossed our southern border illegally and were released into the United States, but—even more troubling—these suspected terrorists allegedly passed through screening by Customs and Border Protection with clean criminal background checks. Despite being ‘fully vetted’ by border officials, it has been revealed that these individuals have ties to ISIS. Given these disturbing revelations, Americans are rightly concerned about threats to our homeland,” Blackburn wrote.
“[S]ince President Biden took office, CBP has encountered 362 migrants on the terrorist watchlist, compared to just 11 under the Trump administration. Equally as concerning, we will never know how many of the nearly 1.6 million known ‘gotaways’ who evaded CBP detection during the first two years of the Biden administration were affiliated with terrorist groups,” she continued.
“The American people deserve to feel safe from terrorist threats within our country, but it is clear that this administration’s policies have made all of our communities less safe. At the very least, Americans deserve to know the full extent of the threat posed by these eight suspected terrorists who managed to gain entry into our country,” Blackburn said.
Instead of cracking down on illegal immigration, the Biden White House appears to be fueling the fire by proposing mass amnesty for more than 500,000 illegal migrants. Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted the decision in an official statement.
“Biden doesn’t care about the American lives that will forever be destroyed by the illegal criminals he is importing; and Biden doesn’t care that law-abiding taxpayers, crushed by inflation, are forced to pay for free food, housing, and healthcare for illegals,” Leavitt said in a statement. “Biden only cares about one thing — power — and that’s why he is giving mass amnesty and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegals who he knows will ultimately vote for him and the Open Border Democrat Party.”