More details are emerging about the failures—and abuses—of the late, unlamented Biden administration, and the consequences are growing harder to ignore. Among the most alarming revelations is a new report from the House Committee on Homeland Security detailing how known and suspected terrorists were allowed to enter the United States during four years of deliberate border neglect.
Under Biden’s watch, immigration laws were effectively abandoned, border enforcement was crippled, and national security was treated as an afterthought—with potentially dangerous results for the American people. It’s not a pleasant read, I can tell you:
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security has released an updated report highlighting terrorism threats to Americans.
It did so after holding a hearing on Tuesday during which Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent testified that the NCTC had identified at least 18,000 known or suspected terrorists who were released into the U.S. during the Biden administration, The Center Square reported. The NCTC has also added roughly 35,000 narco-terrorists to the federal Terrorist Screening Dataset since he’s been in office.
While all of this was unfolding, I was warning—repeatedly and publicly—about the reckless danger of this madness. Opening the floodgates to unchecked migration from every Third World disaster zone on the globe—Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, and yes, China—was never going to end well. Then as now, we have little to no idea where many of these individuals are, where they’ve gone, or what they intend to do once they arrive.
We’re starting to learn, however—and what we’re learning is horrifying.
None of this was accidental. It is the direct result of a Biden administration that chose ideology over law, chaos over security, and deliberately dismantled border enforcement while Americans were left to bear the consequences.
Why is this concerning? Here’s why:
Afghans continue to be arrested for committing crimes in the U.S. Recent examples include three Afghan men charged in one week with terrorism-related crimes. One shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing one; another was apprehended by Texas Department of Public Safety officers in Fort Worth accused of plotting a 9/11 style terrorist attack; another was arrested in Virginia accused of supporting ISIS.
Last month, three Muslim men were arrested in Dearborn, Michigan, charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and possessing firearms to commit a terrorist act on behalf of ISIS. The FBI also arrested two teenagers in New Jersey last month for their role in the alleged plot, the report notes.
In October, a Palestinian man was arrested in Lafayette, Louisiana, for his alleged role in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. He’s a member of a Palestinian National Resistance Brigade, known as the Martyr Umar al-Qasim Forces, the Department of Justice said. He entered the U.S. on Sept. 12, 2024, providing “false information in his U.S. visa application relating to his involvement with a paramilitary organization, connection to Hamas, participation in a terrorist attack, and military training,” the Department of Homeland Security said. Under the Trump administration, a DOJ Joint Task Force found him and arrested him.
In September, a Pakistani man was sentenced to nine years in prison for attempting to provide material support to ISIS, including planning to attack New Yorkers on pedestrian bridges in Queens.
Also in September, two Muslim men were arrested in Salt Lake City, charged with aggravated arson, threat of terrorism and possessing weapons of mass destruction, in connection to an attempt to blow up a Fox 13 vehicle, which failed.
These are only the goblins who happened to get caught. We’ve already seen the cost of those who weren’t: one National Guardsman dead and another wounded in the nation’s capital, casualties of the feckless and idiotic refusal by Joe Biden and his administration to enforce immigration law.
What remains is a massive, dangerous mess—one that will take years to undo. And make no mistake: there will be more attacks, more incidents like those already unfolding. When they happen, responsibility should be placed squarely where it belongs—at the feet of whoever was actually running the country while Joe Biden occupied the White House, largely disengaged and incapable of leadership.
