Texas Border Patrol apprehended Jerminton Genaro-Quinones Carvajal, a Colombian national and confirmed former member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a communist terrorist group that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence lists as one of Colombia’s most dangerous violent organizations. He was apprehended near El Paso on March 8.
Carvajal, after being arrested, told federal agents he was “demobilized” from FARC. Despite the Biden regime revoking FARC’s terrorist label in 2021 based on a 2016 treaty, the U.S. government had earlier declared FARC a terrorist entity in 1997.
According to an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo, Carvajal admitted to handling the transportation of concealed goods for FARC, which occasionally contained firearms, ammunition, and contraband narcotics.
Apart from being on a terror watchlist, Carvajal’s record also includes an arrest for an aggravated robbery offense; he did six months in jail and served 52 months under house arrest, according to Border Patrol’s report. The authorities are prosecuting Carvajal for illegal entry into the U.S. and he remains in custody pending a sentencing date set for March 25.
The incident came within days of the revelation of another case in which Lebanese illegal alien Basel Bassel Ebbadi, an admitted member of the recognized terror organization Hezbollah, was apprehended near the border. Ebbadi claimed he intended to build a bomb once in the U.S. In fiscal year 2022, Border Patrol reported 98 encounters with individuals listed on the terror watch list, a number that nearly doubled to 172 in fiscal year 2023.
