He wasn’t on the terror watch list, but why was he trying to sneak into the U.S. at all?
“Iranian smuggled in car trunk shows security threat from our open border,” by Todd Bensman, New York Post, February 2, 2023:
Good news: The Iranian caught in the trunk of a smuggler’s car illegally crossing the southern border last week wasn’t on the FBI’s terrorism watch list, as was previously reported.
Except … even if he wasn’t on the list, how is this not a terrifying sign of the national security threat we face?
The car-trunk Iranian highlights that intercontinental human smuggling networks do indeed bring people from the most adversarial nations in the world, as detailed in my recent book “America’s Covert Border War, the Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.”
Try as American law enforcement stationed abroad might to disrupt them, these smuggling organizations very much still can and do mainline strangers into Texas from countries where Islamic terrorist groups operate — along with those from nations like Russia, Syria and China.
Last fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 98 immigrants who were on the FBI’s terrorism watch list — an all-time record — and 38 more have been caught in just October, November and December, according to US Customs and Border Protection’s public statistics website.
The probabilities are sky-high that some watch-listed immigrants were among the estimated 300,000 who evaded the Border Patrol in just the past four months — and the 1 million who did so last year.
The danger is real, particularly since Iran’s rulers publicly vow revenge for the killing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Recent reporting had Iran plotting to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa in retaliation for the Soleimani killing.
The US security enterprise takes this threat seriously. In late 2020, the Americans were behind the September 2020 bust in Brazil of Reza Sahami, a dual citizen of Canada and Iran who was caught guiding a group of seven Iranian nationals in the city of Assis Brasil on the border of Peru. All seven Iranians possessed fraudulent or altered passports from Israel, Denmark and Canada. The Sahami organization flew Iranians into Canada on fake passports but also had some smuggled over the southern border.
“Sahami has been smuggling criminals across international borders for over 10 years,” said ICE Attaché for Brazil and Bolivia Robert Fuentes in the scarcely reported 2020 ICE press statement.
But even before the Soleimani retaliation threat, American homeland security and intelligence agencies rightly worried that Iran would easily send its spies over the border — or spies of its terrorist offspring, Hezbollah….
Peacelover says
Thank you Mr.Spencer, for continuing to let us know what the mainstream media won’t report. Much Appreciated!
Stay well.
Linde B. says
I have 3 standards that must be met when anyone from anywhere enters the US:
They must obey all the laws federal/state/ local; they must get a legal, lawful and high value moral job; and they must learn English. I do not think this is too much to ask. Do the dopes in Congress make any requirements like this and enforce them? I would like to know.
these 3 rules on their
somehistory says
hezbollah has been sending their members across the southern border for a very, very long time. they stop off long enough in South America to learn some Spanish and when they get to the border, they jettison anything having to do with their book of evil filth and demonic commands….books, preying rugs, etc. are left in the desert sands.
They can then pretend to be from Mexico, Honduras, etc….a poor, poor refugee, fleeing persecution, wanting a better life, whatever they believe will float the boats of the *immigration lawyers* looking to score big with Hispanics already here. And of course, the politicians who don’t give a fig if the vote is legal or not.
With the border wide open, it is no surprise that the patrol are discovering even more of these scum entering in order to do evil.
PMK says
Not long after 9/11, weren’t there a dozen or so discarded passports from Muslim countries found in one place in the Arizona or Texas desert? These people flew into Mexico and were smuggled into the US by the cartels. This was just one incident, but there are surely many more. They never stop. Now it’s even easier as they join the caravans of people seeking ‘asylum’ in the US.
somehistory says
Yes there were and it actually made the news. Probably would be covered up now.
And the hordes….the young and middle-aged males,…make it so easy for them to get in without being asked any questions.
GreekEmpress says
So true somehistory and PMK—during the Obama years, we frequently saw illegals near our home and heard of Muslim prayer mats, etc. in the desert just south of us. There were even Afghanis who were caught transporting suspicious materials. We got a reprieve during Trump, and moved closer to civilization to be safer. But it’s worse now than ever. There was another incident a couple of days ago a couple of miles east of us. An illegal in camo pursued by drones, law enforcement, etc. He got away, but a huge amount of fentanyl and meth was seized.
somehistory says
You are the eyes on the ground there, GE.
I’m not a bit surprised by the drugs he was carrying, smuggling. In the courses I took regarding terror groups and orgs, I found that drug smuggling, human trafficking, gun–running, and any other illegal commodity they can think of, is used to make the money to support them in their terrorism
Just as the old mafia, cosa nostra, groups of bygone days (they still exist, but we don’t hear much about them), are into drugs, booze, money-laundering, protection rackets, a.k.a. extortion, prostitution, gambling illegally, conspiracy to commit these and other crimes, etc., so too are mozlums guilty of the same things.
That’s why I say RICO should be used to put a damper on them; just as it was used against the mafia, cosa nostra, AB, and many were jailed for long periods; helping to put some out of business and others less likely to be so bold.
Until some muscle is applied, they will continue and only get worse.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“…RICO should be used to put a damper on them; just as it was used against the mafia, cosa nostra, AB, and many were jailed for long periods…”
I’m not an attorney, but it sure makes sense to me.
Why is RICO not being used?
somehistory says
James, the only reason it is not being used, is because they don’t want to stop what mozlums are doing, and some of them are probably more afraid to even try to prosecute the many mozlums who are involved in the conspiracies and other crimes committed.
Can you imagine how many there would be if they began arresting, charging, prosecuting them?
James Lincoln says
Understand, somehistory.
OLD GUY says
How many others have crossed our borders unknown to our government. Just think about the huge amount of DRUGS being smuggled across our borders on a daily basis. For every load of illegal drugs they catch 10 get smuggled in. Our government is setting us up for a major disaster.
Walter Sieruk says
That “No secure border policy” of Joe Biden and his leftist’s political comrades are totally disaster for many reasons. As seen new report about that dangerous t Iranian captured at the Southern border.
Before this above recent news, it was discovered that twenty – three Muslim terrorists just captured crossing the Mexican/US border that really be a wakeup call. Before that a jihadist who was captured who had originally come from Saudi Arabia, earlier yet, two Iranian jihad operatives had also been captured.
First, there are also those jihadists of ISIS al Qaeda and other similar jihadist terrorists may now more easily infiltrate into America.
In conclusion, Biden will have the blood of many good, decent American citizens across the United States on his wicked vile hands.
James Lincoln says
Walter Sieruk says
“In conclusion, Biden will have the blood of many good, decent American citizens across the United States on his wicked vile hands.”
He already does, Walter.