United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have recently seized a number of illegal migrants carrying improvised explosives “tailor-made for terrorism” while attempting to cross the southern border.
Several Republican Senators, including John Barrasso (R-Wyo), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb), spoke openly at a press conference on Tuesday of the heightened risks of terrorism as a result of the unrelenting migrant influx as well as the frustration felt by Border Patrol agents, who argue they are powerless to stop it.
“We have just returned from our southern border, and it is painfully clear that with Joe Biden’s open border policy, our country is really at an increased threat for [sic] a terrorist attack,” said Senator Barrasso, who added the explosive devices brought into the country were the “size of cannonballs.”
Senator Ricketts highlighted how authorities at the border have caught 180 people on the U.S. terrorist watchlist attempting to enter the country over the past two years. “To put this into perspective, in years past, that number was single digits,” he said, “We’re opening ourselves up for a terrorist attack.”
More than 10 million illegal migrants have poured into the country under the Biden government, representing the highest number on record. The number of “gotaways” – those who evade Border Patrol upon entry – although impossible to know exactly is at least 600,000, per the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
