FBI Director Christopher Wray was back on Capitol Hill this week. This time, the Top Fed was speaking with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the “Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment.” Suffice it to say, Wray has some concerns about threats coming across the border.
Wray was questioned by border state Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).
“I worry that among the people that are coming across the border that are evading law enforcement, that there are some people among those that mean to do us harm. Do you share that concern?” Cornyn asked Wray.
“I do,” Wray replied.
The Lone Star State Senator also asked Wray about a group from Uzbekistan that was smuggled into the U.S. by ISIS last year.
“So that’s a threat stream that we’re very concerned about,” Wray said.
“We’re very actively investigating working with DHS [Department of Homeland Security] on both people whose travel was facilitated but also members of the facilitation network in some other way overseas.”
Committee Vice Chairman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) also questioned Wray; the Sunshine State lawmaker asked Wray about smuggling operations that are conducted by people connected to “ISIS or other terrorist organization.”
“There is a particular network that has … where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that we’re very concerned about, and we’ve been spending enormous amounts of effort with our partners investigating exactly what that network is up to,” Wray said.
“From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border, and that includes everything from the drug trafficking, and the FBI alone sees enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people,” Wray said.
“That’s just on the fentanyl side. An awful lot of violent crime in the United States is at the hands of gangs who are themselves involved in the distribution of that fentanyl.”
Despite Wray sounding the alarm over Biden’s porous southern border, the President maintains his position that it’s not criminals coming into the country.
“We need just an orderly process at the border. They’re not vermin. They’re not scum. They’re not people who are all criminals coming,” Biden told a crowd this week.
But some of them are criminals, Mr. President. And they’re starting to make headlines…
