We’re not surprised. Not even a little.
204,561 migrant encounters were logged at the southern border in May —not an excellent number for the Biden Administration. Heck, it’s not even a good number for them. And with so many bodies throwing themselves at the border, along with a tragically understaffed and underfunded border patrol, slip-ups are bound to happen.
And one big slip-up did happen.
According to a recent Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report, an immigrant on the terrorist watch list was caught and released into the country.
The IG says the grave error was due to “ineffective practices and processes.”
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended and subsequently released a migrant without providing information requested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) that would have confirmed the migrant was a positive match with the Terrorist Screening Data Set (Terrorist Watchlist). This occurred because CBP’s ineffective practices and processes for resolving inconclusive matches with the Terrorist Watchlist led to multiple mistakes,” the report says.
Multiple mistakes?
According to the report, on April 17, 2022 “Border Patrol apprehended a migrant and their family members” in Yuma, Arizona. 4 days later —and after the release of the migrant —it was determined that they were on the terror watchlist.
The local ICE office in Tampa believed that “the migrant could pose a national security risk,” according to a report from The Daily Wire.
“Due to paperwork and miscommunication, the actual arrest did not take place until May 6, prompting the DHS inspector general to recommend that Border Patrol implement a better system to identify individuals on the terrorist watchlist and for better information-sharing practices for ICE,” DW reports.
“One reason the individual was originally released was that agents were busy processing ‘an increased flow of migrants,’ according to agents in the Yuma sector.”
“CPC agents explained that the Yuma CPC was over capacity following an increase in apprehensions, which created pressure to quickly process migrants and decreased the time available to review each file,” the report says.
For two weeks a migrant on the terror watchlist was walking around the country, free as a bird. What’s it going to take for the Biden Administration to wake up?
