Fear of ISIS entering America through the Mexican border.
According to C. it. The FBI is investigating the records of more than a dozen Uzbek citizens who were allowed to enter the United States after applying for asylum at the southern US border with Mexico earlier this year.
The case began when US intelligence officials learned that the migrants had traveled to the US with the help of a smuggler linked to ISIS. According to several US officials, ISIS has been in contact with some of these people.
Although the FBI says no specific ISIS plot has been identified, security officials are still working to “identify and evaluate” all those who have entered the United States, according to Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the US National Security Council.
Although there is currently no evidence to warrant anyone’s arrest, an urgent classified intelligence report was released to top Joe Biden cabinet officials in their briefing room containing some security tips. The report was sent to some counterterrorism officials, and its contents show that the United States is deeply vulnerable to the possibility that terrorists could enter by hiding among the waves of immigrants.
Earlier this year, a group of migrants from Uzbekistan applied for asylum and were screened by the Department of Homeland Security. There is no information in any of the databases of the US intelligence community that clarifies the connection of these groups with ISIS. Only later, when F. B. Ai learned of a human trafficking network linked to Uzbek nationals and learned that the network included at least one person linked to ISIS.
Officers of F. B. AI across America immediately rushed to find Uzbek immigrants and research their backgrounds. Watson from the authorities of F. B. “There was no indication — and there is no indication — that any of the individuals identified by this network were affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization or involved in planning a terrorist attack in the United States,” Aye said in a statement to CNN.
According to US officials, the ISIS-linked smuggler is not believed to be a member of the terrorist group, but more like an independent contractor working with ISIS. The American intelligence community now believes that a person associated with ISIS helped some of these Uzbek immigrants at the behest of this terrorist group.
According to Watson’s statement, the United States has not yet located all of the individuals who traveled to the United States as part of the Uzbek human trafficking network.
US officials have also privately expressed concern that the unusual increase in the number of immigrants from Central Asia is alarming. An area that is also known as the main source of ISIS member refugees.
For some US intelligence officials, identifying terrorist elements among the wave of asylum seekers at the Mexican border is a major problem. The US government needs to figure out how to define who is a threat and who is not.
“From the FBI’s point of view, we’re seeing a variety of very serious criminal threats coming from across the border,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a congressional hearing in July.
Also, some U.S. intelligence officials who saw the intelligence report sent earlier this month are concerned that ISIS will change its tactics to target the southern border, making it much more difficult for the U.S. to detect ISIS elements entering the Mexican border.
