As of the end of June, the US Department of Homeland Security identified 400 illegal aliens who entered the United States using networks affiliated with ISIS to smuggle them into the country.
Of those 400 individuals, roughly 50 could not be found, DHS said.
DHS also reported that another 90 suspected terrorists were encountered at the border and stopped from entering the US.
Some of the suspected terrorists who were released into the US have been arrested, including 16 people who were apprehended in recent months.
Last month, eight men from Tajikistan were arrested in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia after the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was alerted of their suspected ties to Islamic State in Central Asia.
Two of the men entered the United States in the spring of 2023, one of whom was using the app developed by the Biden administration to help asylum seekers schedule appointments.
A Jordanian who entered the US from the southern border was arrested in May along with another Jordanian man after the two attempted to breach security at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.
An Uzbek national who was released by Border Patrol in February 2022 was arrested in April after a review of his asylum application turned up a notice from Uzbekistan that warned of his ties to ISIS.
Border Patrol agents apprehended Lebanese national Basel Bassel Ebbadi near El Paso, Texas in March after he claimed to be a member of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah and said he planned to travel to New York and make a bomb.
An Afghan migrant who spent nearly a year in the US after being released by Border Patrol in 2023, was taken into custody in February after his name was found on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist as a member of Hezb-e-Islami, an anti-Western terrorist group that sought to overturn the Western-backed Afghan government before the Taliban took over.
The New York Post published a map featuring some of the terrorists who have been apprehended in recent months and where they were apprehended.
