The FBI is scrambling to locate immigrants from Uzbekistan who were released into the United States after they illegally crossed the southern border with the help of a human smuggler who has ties to the Islamic State terrorist group, according to a new report.
Federal law enforcement agencies nationwide are piecing together how information slipped between the cracks and resulted in a national security headache for the Biden administration, which Republicans will likely cite as proof of the potential dangers of the unchecked border crisis.Earlier this year, Border Patrol agents at an unspecified part of the southern border apprehended and processed a group of people from the Central Asian country, CNN reported on Tuesday morning.
The incident was of such concern that government officials drafted an urgent, classified intelligence report and printed it in the morning briefing book of President Joe Biden's top Cabinet officials. But the incident highlights what Republicans have claimed for years could happen as millions of people come over the border illegally: bad actors hiding within the masses.
But Brandon Judd, the national president of the National Border Patrol Council, said the"breakdown" in communication between Washington and the 19,000 Border Patrol agents nationwide has not been remedied despite what Watson claimed. Border Patrol agents have not been briefed or instructed to use extra caution when screening and processing immigrants crossing from unusual countries in parts of the world that have ties to terrorist groups.
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