{"id":2016944,"date":"2023-08-30T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/120-asylum-seekers-smuggled-by-isis-linked-group-were-allowed-into-us-biden-admin-admits\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:12:11","slug":"120-asylum-seekers-smuggled-by-isis-linked-group-were-allowed-into-us-biden-admin-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/120-asylum-seekers-smuggled-by-isis-linked-group-were-allowed-into-us-biden-admin-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin admits allowing ISIS-linked group to smuggle 120 asylum seekers into US."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2F120-asylum-seekers-smuggled-by-isis-linked-group-were-allowed-into-us-biden-admin-admits%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=2016944&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--><div>\n<h2>Smuggler with Ties to Extremist Group Helps Uzbek Migrants Enter the\u200d United States<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A smuggler with ties \u200bto a foreign \u2063extremist group helped Uzbek\u2064 migrants enter the United States from Mexico, the White House said on Tuesday, raising questions about a potential\u2062 security\u2064 threat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The smuggler was based \u2062in Turkey\u2064 and \u2062had\u2062 links to the jihadist Islamic State, also known as <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">ISIS<\/span>, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. CNN first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/29\/politics\/migrants-us-southern-border-smuggler-isis-ties\/index.html\">reported<\/a> the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants were allowed entry to the United States after\u200b requesting asylum at the southern border, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Record numbers of migrants\u2063 have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally since President Joe Biden took office in 2021, including many from distant nations. The \u2062Uzbek migrants&#8217;\u2064 entry came as the administration has ignored its own limits \u2064on asylum seekers,\u200d allowing more\u2062 than a 1,000 migrants to cross the border every day, the\u200d <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-waives-more-migrants-through-southern-border-than-promised\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans say Biden\u2064 encouraged\u2064 crossings by reversing tougher policies of former president\u200d Donald Trump, \u2064a Republican. The Biden administration argues that it\u2062 has instituted more humane policies as migration has challenged countries across the Western\u200d Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>Of the nearly two million migrants\u2063 encountered\u200d at the U.S.-Mexico border between \u2063October 2022 and July\u2064 2023, \u2063216 were on U.S. watchlists for potential links\u2063 to terrorism, according to U.S. government statistics.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whereabouts-of-top-russian-general-remain-unknown-since-prigozhin-mutiny\/\" title=\"Location of Russian general still unknown after Prigozhin rebellion.\">intelligence officials discovered<\/a> a smuggling network to\u200d bring Uzbeks into the country and\u2062 a smuggler with ties to\u2064 a U.S.-designated \u200cforeign \u200dterrorist organization, White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a \u2063statement.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. authorities \u2062have no indication that migrants aided by the\u2062 smuggling \u2064network were tied to extremist groups or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-bovard-30-years-ago-the-fbi-might-have-had-its-biggest-bomb-the-world-trade-center-attack\/\" title=\"James Bovard: 30 Years Ago, the FBI Might Have Had Its Biggest Bomb: The World Trade Center Attack\">plotting terrorist attacks<\/a>, Watson said.<\/p>\n<p>Watson\u2062 did not confirm links to the Islamic \u2064State specifically or that the smuggler \u200cwas based in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants who\u2063 &#8220;fit the profile&#8221; of those assisted by the\u200d smugglers are being placed in \u2064rapid deportation proceedings and &#8220;thoroughly vetted,&#8221; Watson said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. official said the FBI is trying to locate about\u200d 15 of roughly 120 Uzbek migrants who entered the United\u200d States \u200dthrough legal border crossings via the\u200c network.<\/p>\n<p>An FBI spokesperson said the agency &#8220;has not identified a specific terrorism plot associated with foreign nationals who recently entered the United States at the southern border,&#8221; and declined \u200cto comment on specifics.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered some 3,200 Uzbeks at U.S borders in fiscal year 2022, up from fewer than \u200c700 a \u200cyear earlier.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200cby Ted\u2064 Hesson in Washington; additional reporting by\u200c Humeyra Pamuk in Washington, Mica Rosenberg in New\u200b York, and Lizbeth Diaz in Mexico City; editing by Mary Milliken and Andy Sullivan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House revealed that a smuggler connected to a foreign extremist group aided Uzbek migrants in entering the US from Mexico. This raises concerns about a possible security risk. The smuggler, based in Turkey, had ties to the jihadist organization ISIS, as stated by a US official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2016946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016944","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}