{"id":2268997,"date":"2024-06-16T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-intel-dem-concedes-undocumented-immigrants-pose-national-security-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T19:09:20","slug":"house-intel-dem-concedes-undocumented-immigrants-pose-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-intel-dem-concedes-undocumented-immigrants-pose-national-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"House Intel Democrat Admits Undocumented Immigrants Are National Security Risk"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhouse-intel-dem-concedes-undocumented-immigrants-pose-national-security-threat%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=2268997&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>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Himes, a \u200cleading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, admitted in \u200ban interview\u2064 on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that the presence of undocumented \u2063immigrants in the United States represents a security \u200cthreat. During the conversation, host\u2063 Shannon Bream highlighted concerns previously expressed by \u200cFBI \u200dDirector\u200d Christopher Wray and others about the \u200dlack of complete background knowledge regarding the millions \u2064of undocumented individuals in the country. Himes referenced the \u200b9\/11 attacks, carried out by individuals who \u2063were in\u2062 the U.S. on student visas, to illustrate the\u200d potential\u200b internal security risks\u2062 posed by people \u2063residing in the country without proper \u200cdocumentation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged on Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chad-wolf-to-newsmax-unacceptable-biden-harris-have-not-visited-border\/\" title=\"Chad Wolf to Newsmax: 'Unacceptable' Biden, Harris Have Not Visited Border\">undocumented immigrants crossing<\/a> into the United States pose a \u201cthreat\u201d to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox News Sunday\u201d anchor Shannon Bream <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6355132090112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> Himes how worried he is about \u201cpotentially millions of people in this country\u201d whose \u201cfull story\u201d is not known after noting concerns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-director-wray-warned-terror-threat-posed-open-border-days-before-8-isis-suspects-arrested-across-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised by<\/a> FBI Director Christopher Wray and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/terrorism-warning-lights-are-blinking-red-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s not just that, Shannon, right? I mean, remember, the perpetrators of 9\/11 pulled off the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-admits-al-qaeda-is-in-afghanistan-after-biden-said-group-was-gone-last-year\/\" title=\"White House Admits Al-Qaeda Is in Afghanistan After Biden Said Group Was Gone Last Year\">spectacular terrorist attack<\/a> against the United States from inside the United States, on student visas,\u201d Himes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, yes, the fact that there are lots of people who \u2014 who are here on an undocumented basis is a threat and the FBI director is right about that, and the FBI director and the chiefs of all of the intelligence community are very, very focused,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Himes went on to talk about how the fight between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip as well as tensions with China and Ukraine\u2019s years-long conflict against Russia are affecting the situation at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderlying this, of course, is the conflict in Israel and Gaza which has sort of activated radical Islamic terrorists. They more than ever before would like to undertake an attack in a spectacular way,\u201d Himes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other thing going on, of course, is that over time we have gradually shifted our attention to China and, of course, to Russia,\u201d Himes said. \u201cAnd, you know, to some extent, it\u2019s a little bit of a zero-sum game. If you\u2019re really focused on China, which I think is appropriate, if you\u2019re really focused on supporting the Ukrainians, which is appropriate, inevitably, there is a little bit less \u2014 fewer resources devoted to count \u2014 the counterterrorism mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bream then pressed Himes about eight men from Tajikistan with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parler-worked-with-fbi-to-target-threats-prior-to-capitol-riot-company-says\/\" title=\"Parler Worked With FBI To Target Threats Prior To Capitol Riot, Company Says\">potential ties<\/a> to ISIS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/8-suspected-terrorists-possible-isis-ties-arrested-new-york-l-philadel-rcna156635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> getting arrested by federal authorities after they crossed the border and their criminal background checks were clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue was not that they came across the border, although that is an issue, and the issue is not fundamentally with the vetting process per se. The issue was that when their identities were determined, we did not have derogatory information on them. Now, that\u2019s sort of an inevitable aspect of you never have perfect information,\u201d Himes said.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman added later that Americans \u201cshould take some comfort in the fact that the moment these guys started communicating and doing suspect things, we were all over them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, admitted on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. represent a &#8220;threat.&#8221; Anchor Shannon Bream questioned him about the concerns regarding millions in the U.S. with unknown backgrounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2268998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2147930355-e1718558113635.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2147930355-e1718558113635.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268997","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}