The U.S.-Mexico border has essentially been porous for most of the last three years.
has essentially been porous for most of the last three years. Because of the prolonged and public nature of this border insecurity, foreign criminals, intelligence officers/agents, and terrorists have had thekey border concern has focused on the Central Asian ISIS-K syndicate of the Islamic State terrorist organization. The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan has afforded that group a relatively safe haven free of effective U.S. intelligence, detection, and interdiction.
Think about how worrisome that is from a counterterrorism point of view: The man was detained, released inside the U.S., then later found to have possible ISIS ties. Then, only after the FBI obtained a warrant to surveil him based on those suspected ties, was he found to be talking about explosives. It’s deeply disturbing that he and the other five arrested were able to act with such liberty until now.
Of additional concern is the six-person nature of this possible terrorist cell and its geographic dispersion among Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York City. Los Angeles and New York City are priority targets for Salafi-Jihadist groups such as ISIS-K, and Philadelphia is only a short train or bus ride from New York City. And where migrants in the U.S. know one another, they tend to stick together for mutual support.
One would think that arrests such as these would lead the Biden administration to take much more urgent action to secure the border. Again, the border threat intelligence alarm. National security is any administration’s first responsibility. But even if the administration fears that border security enforcement might alienate certain Democratic voters on the party’s left, the political consequences of a terrorist attack born out of a porous border would surely be catastrophic.
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