Terror Suspects Caught Crossing Mexico Border
Two Yemeni migrants on FBI terror watch list apprehended
Federal authorities in recent months detained two Yemeni men on terror watchlists as they attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The two men, whom authorities did not name, crossed the border in the last three months and were apprehended in southwest California. Customs and Border Protection said both men were on a no-fly list and a federal terror watch list.
Gregory K. Bovino, chief patrol agent of the border sector where the men were apprehended, said in a statement that has since been deleted from CBP's website that the arrests highlight how important the mission of securing the border is for the safety of all Americans.
"Part of the Border Patrol's mission states we will protect the country from terrorists," Bovino said, according to an archived copy of the statement. "These apprehensions at our border illustrates the importance of our mission and how we can never stop being vigilant in our everyday mission to protect this great country."
The Biden administration has not said why the statement, as well as a tweet on the arrests from Department of Homeland Security, were deleted. Neither CBP nor DHS responded to requests for comment.
The news of terror suspects trespassing at the border comes weeks after the media downplayed such allegations. In March, a delegation of House Republicans visited the Mexican border during a historic surge beginning at the start of the Biden administration. Republicans told the Washington Free Beacon terrorists had approached the U.S.-Mexican border and endangered national security. Critics in the media, however, rated such claims "Dubious" and said the government provided "Conflicting" disclosures about the number of suspected terrorists.
Rep. John Katko (R., N.Y.), ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, was part of the delegation of Republicans that visited the border, where, he said, the Biden administration's lax border security policy is "quickly becoming a national emergency."
"When I was at the border a few weeks ago, border patrol agents shared with me a firsthand account of encountering known or suspected terrorists on the terrorism watch list attempting to exploit President Biden’s weak and reckless border security policies," he said. "This is quickly becoming a national emergency with impact well beyond border communities alone."
Katko also said the CBP's deletion of the press release showed a "troubling" lack of transparency from the Biden administration.
"Even worse, in a troubling move, CBP removed the press release from their website disclosing two Yemeni men on the terrorism watch list were apprehended crossing the border into the United States. A word to the wise to the Biden administration: Transparency in name alone is not transparency."
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Tentacles of Mexican Cartels Reach into U.S., Says Rep. Chip Roy
The tentacles of criminal organizations like the Gulf Cartel or the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas do not end at the Texas border, said U.S. Congressman Chip Roy.
Congressman Roy made those statements during a series of exclusive interviews with Breitbart Texas as he traveled the Texas border in a fact-finding effort amid the current border crisis, which he attributed to the policies of the Biden Administration. Roy stepped away from the formal congressional delegations to border hotspots like McAllen, Laredo, Carrizo Springs, Eagle Pass, and others.
One of the largest takeaways of those visits is that Mexican cartels have real operational control of the border as Mexico’s government remains unable to do anything about it, Roy said.
“That’s something that the American people don’t fully understand,” he said. “The Mexican government–they can’t have their force mean anything in that area. The cartels have control there.”
However, according to Congressman Roy, the power of the cartels does not end at the border. In some cases, U.S. agencies in San Antonio and others have turned a blind eye to the presence and power of cartels, he said.
In the Rio Grande Valley, the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel has been benefiting from the lack of enforcement at the border, while in Laredo the CDN-Los Zetas are the ones reaping the benefits, Roy said.
“They are the ones making a lot of money moving human beings for profit,” he said.
During those visits, Roy has encountered several groups of migrants, some of those who had been trying to run away from authorities such as in Laredo, while in the Rio Grande Valley, migrants became lost in the brush after crossing the river after not being able to find any agents.
“The word has gotten out that Border Patrol is now distracted,” Roy said, explaining that agents from other sectors have been moved to the Rio Grande Valley to man detention and processing facilities. “What does that mean? You don’t have patrols going out and stopping the flow between the ports of entry. So now we have fentanyl up, pounds of marijuana up, human smuggling between ports of entry up, and that is kind of where your bad guys are generally coming. This is the state of our border.”
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