A Pakistani national whose name is on the U.S. terrorism watch list was detained by federal immigration authorities after illegally crossing the country's southern border, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo released anonymously by two Pakistani sources. organ to the Daily Caller News foundation.
Details of the document reveal that the foreigner illegally accessed the United States in November last year, being arrested by the Border Patrol the following day in Tecate, California. While he was in custody, the Terrorism Screening Center confirmed that the suspect's data positively pointed to terrorism watch list requirements.
Despite this, the memo confirms that the illegal immigrant was released at the end of January from custody at the Federal Migration Agency (ICE) in San Diego, after the agency handed him a release order under recognition. with tracking technology, through a program called Alternatives to Detention.
ICE has informed the agency's Los Angeles office of the presence of a suspected terrorist in the country, along with a request for mandatory detention. According to the documents released, when the foreigner appeared at the agency again, the authorities arrested him.
“Imagine how many cases like this go by without us knowing,” a Department of Homeland Security official told Daily Caller News Foundationunder condition of anonymity.
When individuals are placed in expedited removal proceedings, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, asylum officers conduct interviews to determine which individuals are at real risk if returned to their home country. “A well-founded fear of persecution due to your race, religion, nationality, specific social group or political opinion”, are some of the rules of analysis.
If an asylum officer denies that it is a credible allegation of fear, the individual can ask to have their case heard by an immigration judge. The memo did not reveal the terrorist organization with which the individual was allegedly linked.
“One of the biggest problems with stopping terrorists from entering the United States, in my opinion, is the delay in records checks performed by the massive amounts of people flooding the border,” said a source at the US Department of Homeland Security ( DHS). “When it takes an agency more than three months to determine whether someone is/was a known terrorist suspect, that’s a huge problem.”
The migration crisis, caused by Joe Biden's administration, has been heavily criticized across the country, especially in Texas, where even different government bodies are facing legal action over the matter.
Currently, the United States is experiencing a collapse of the migration system, with thousands of people seeking asylum in the country and others illegally accessing the borders. Some states run by Democrats, such as New York and California, which until recently encouraged the arrival of foreigners, are now implementing measures to curb the number of immigrants.
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