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Islamists Crossing U.S. Border from South America


(Washington Free Beacon) Bill Gertz - Sunni extremists are infiltrating the U.S. with the help of alien smugglers in South America and are crossing the U.S. border with ease, according to a U.S. South Command intelligence report. "Networks that specialize in smuggling individuals from regions of terrorist concern, mainly from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, the Middle East, and East Africa, are indeed a concern for Southcom and other interagency security partners who support our country's national security," said Army Col. Lisa A. Garcia, a Southcom spokeswoman. The infiltrators from terrorist states and unstable regions exploit vulnerabilities in commercial transportation systems and immigration enforcement agencies in some of the countries used for transit. "In 2015, we saw a total of 331,000 migrants enter the southwestern border between the U.S. and Mexico, of that we estimate more than 30,000 of those were from countries of terrorist concern," Col. Garcia said. The Southcom intelligence report revealed that the threat of Islamist terror infiltration is no longer theoretical.
2016-08-23 00:00:00
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