In March of this year, the FBI warned of dangerous individuals crossing the border. FBI Director Chris Wray told a Senate panel that dangerous individuals have entered the United States illegally at the southern border.
“We have had dangerous individuals entering the United States have a variety of sources,” Wray said at the annual “Worldwide Threats” congressional hearings at which the heads of U.S. intelligence agencies testify.
“We are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border, ” he said, citing drug trafficking in particular. “The FBI alone seized enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people,” he said.
“There is a particular network that has — some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have — ISIS ties that we’re very concerned about, and we’ve been spending an enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating,” Wray said.
“Even before October 7, I would have told this committee that we were at a heightened threat level from a terrorism perspective — in the sense that it’s the first time I’ve seen in a long, long time,” he said. “The threats from homegrown violent extremists that is jihadist-inspired, extremists, domestic violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations, and state-sponsored terrorist organizations all being elevated at one time since October 7, though, that threat has gone to a whole other level. And so, this is a time, I think, for much greater vigilance, maybe been called upon us,” he said. […]
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