{"id":1530845,"date":"2022-06-28T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530845"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:02:32","slug":"known-and-suspected-terrorists-entering-us-in-unprecedented-numbers-rep-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/known-and-suspected-terrorists-entering-us-in-unprecedented-numbers-rep-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Known and Suspected Terrorists Entering US in Unprecedented Numbers: Rep. Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknown-and-suspected-terrorists-entering-us-in-unprecedented-numbers-rep-higgins%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Known and suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-terrorists\">terrorists<\/a> are entering the United States in unprecedented numbers amid a surge in\u00a0illegal immigration, according to\u00a0Rep. Clay Higgins\u00a0(R-La.).<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/rep-higgins-number-of-terrorists-entering-us-far-greater-than-official-dhs-figures_798524.html\">interview with NTD<\/a>, sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, the Louisiana representative said the Biden administration was providing \u201cabsurd\u201d figures on the actual\u00a0number of known and suspected terrorists entering America through its borders.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins, a\u00a0decorated law enforcement officer, said he believed the number to be much higher, in part owing to the number of suspected terrorists who have aggressively avoided interaction with law enforcement at the border, referred to as \u201cgot-aways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Higgins\u2019s comments come after Border Patrol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/bidens-border-crisis-more-terror-suspects-more-lawlessness\/\">agents captured 50 people<\/a> who were on the FBI\u2019s terror watchlist from October 2021 to May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That figure was just 15 in\u00a0the fiscal year 2021, which included several months under former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToward the end of last year [2021], I had estimated that we had lost about 250 KSTs, known and suspected terrorists, so the total numbers now that we\u2019re told could serve about 700,000 \u2018got-aways\u2019 are suspected to have\u00a0crossed into America. I think that\u2019s a low number,\u201d Higgins said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom my perspective, with data delivered to me by boots on the ground, from the border and from Central America and Mexico, and from the official numbers that are delivered to\u00a0Congress from official data collection processes with Customs and Border Patrol,\u00a0I think\u00a0it\u2019s reasonable for Americans to sort of step back and say,\u00a0\u2018My God, we have somewhere between 500 and 1,000 known and suspected terrorists\u00a0[who]\u00a0have entered into our country across our southern border since\u00a0President [Joe] Biden has been inaugurated into office.\u2019 This should startle every American citizen regardless of political affiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Conservative Numbers\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Explaining why he believes the actual number of suspected terrorists in the United States could be higher, Higgins pointed to Biden\u2019s administration, which he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known and suspected terrorists are entering the United States in unprecedented numbers amid a surge in\u00a0illegal immigration, according to\u00a0Rep. Clay Higgins\u00a0(R-La.). In an interview with NTD, sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, the Louisiana representative said the Biden administration was providing \u201cabsurd\u201d figures on the actual\u00a0number of known and suspected terrorists entering America through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}