Last Updated on 06/09/2024 by Arun jain
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is slamming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “protecting the identity” of illegal aliens on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s terrorist watch list.
Cotton writes To DHS Secretary Alexander Mayorkas.
As Cotton notes, Fox News filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in October 2023 asking DHS for the nationalities of illegal aliens who had crossed the border since January 2021 and who were subsequently found on the terrorist watch list.
In response to the request, DHS responded that the agency is “committed to protecting the identities” of individuals on the terror watch list and that releasing such information is an “invasion of individual privacy.”
“[DHS] asserted that the “privacy interests” of illegal-alien terrorists “weigh any public interest, if any, in disclosing their information,” Cotton writes:
Your letter also suspiciously claims that terrorist organizations can “use nationality information through distance.[ring] A large percentage of its operatives of certain nationalities” raises red flags of lesser terrorism. Of course, IIf the Biden-Harris administration impartially enforces our laws and deports illegal aliens regardless of their origin, terrorists will not be able to game the system. As you describe. [Emphasis added]
I suspect that the real reason you are illegally withholding this information about the nationalities of terrorist suspects is not because of privacy or security concerns, but because of partisan concerns that it will frighten the American people. once again, You’re trying to hide evidence of the Biden-Harris administration’s border crisis. [Emphasis added]
But the American people have a right to know who is crossing our border, especially when those illegal aliens are connected to terrorism. And that right, contrary to your outlandish assertion, “far outweighs” the privacy rights of illegal aliens suspected of terrorism. Honestly, I can’t believe I even have to write that sentence. [Emphasis added]
Cotton asks Mayorkas to present the nationalities of illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list to his Senate office by September 10.
As of July, Biden and Harris’ DHS have monitored arrivals at the southern border. About 400 Illegal aliens on terrorist watch list beginning January 2021.
recent Bombshell report The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement revealed that the Biden-Harris administration has released “at least 99 to American communities, including at least 34 others in DHS custody but not yet removed from the United States.”
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