It’s rather embarrassing that the Federal Bureau of Instigation can’t seem to locate more than a dozen Uzbek nationals smuggled in by an ISIS affiliated travel agent. The feds are out beating the bushes while telling the public that they don’t really think these guys are terrorists. Still, they admit, they have to find them before they can be sure.
No specific ISIS plot
The FBI is quick to insist that “no specific ISIS plot has been identified.” One hasn’t been ruled out yet either. The Federal Bureau of Instigation sheepishly admits they’re “investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the U.S. after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year.”
The red flags should have been popping up everywhere but officials muted the alerts. Uzbekistan isn’t a place known for producing typical asylum-seeking refugees. They were granted asylum anyway.
The “scramble” to locate the group happened “when U.S. intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with the help of a smuggler with ties to ISIS.” CNN is crediting “multiple U.S. officials” with the leak. While Christopher Wray swears up and down that no “specific” plot has been identified, terror teams are frantically working to “identify and assess” all of the individuals who gained entry to the United States.
A terrorist with ties to ISIS helped to smuggle Uzbek nationals into our country.
Our government has not yet tracked them down.
We have no national security thanks to the Biden Administration's open border.https://t.co/kBjxv4XVr2
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) August 29, 2023
Alejandro Mayorkas isn’t any help. He says they aren’t answering the phones they were given at the border. They’re working on locating the assigned tracking devices and hope the missing migrants are still carrying them.
Adrienne Watson, speaking for the National Security Council, notes “they are closely scrutinizing a number of the migrants as possible criminal threats.” At this point, they don’t have any evidence “to justify detaining anyone.” They’re trying to arrest people anyway. The “episode was so alarming that an urgent classified intelligence report was circulated.” it went out to all of Joe Biden’s handlers “in their morning briefing book.”
The ISIS connection has some counterterrorism officials wagging their fingers and scolding, “I told you so.” That’s because it “shows that the U.S. is deeply vulnerable to the possibility that terrorists could sneak across the southern border by hiding amid the surge of migrants entering the country in search of asylum.” Alejandro Mayorkas is in the process of being impeached for that.
Flurry of urgent meetings
Even though they downplay the threat to the public, “the incident kicked off a flurry of urgent meetings among top national security and administration officials.” CNN notes that ISIS terror threats don’t help, considering the way Republicans keep complaining about the lack of border security.
Congress is already breathing down everyone’s neck for covering up Biden family influence peddling crimes and now “staff on key congressional committees have been informed of the incident.” It will only add to the impeachment evidence piling up against all of them.
Earlier this year, the “cohort of migrants from Uzbekistan requested asylum and were screened by the Department of Homeland Security.” DHS totally missed the ISIS connection.
@PressSec The FBI is searching for more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who claimed asylum at the southern border, after it emerged an ISIS-linked trafficker facilitated their travel pic.twitter.com/YhiGK5KI4l
— Joni Job (@jj_talking) August 29, 2023
Each of them were given a court date. Based on separate reports, it’s likely they won’t be due in front of a judge until some time in 2034. Recently, the FBI stumbled on the link between the Uzbek nationals and their travel agent by accident.
Once they had that missing piece of the puzzle, “FBI agents around the country immediately rushed to try to locate the migrants and investigate their backgrounds. The bureau also worked with Turkish authorities, who arrested the smuggler and other members of his network at the behest of the US, and has subsequently obtained information from him to aid its investigation.”
He may have worked for ISIS but that doesn’t mean for certain that he was smuggling terrorists. “There was no indication — and remains no indication — that any of the individuals facilitated by this network have a connection to a foreign terrorist organization or are engaged in plotting a terrorist attack in the United States,” Ms. Watson added in her statement.
