By now, many Americans are aware of the elevated national security risk of terrorist infiltrations over the U.S. southwest border, a byproduct of Biden-Harris administration policies that brought about the worst mass migration crisis in U.S. history starting in 2021 and largely neutralized longstanding border counterterrorism programs.
Publicity and Republican campaigning have centered on, for instance, U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions of the record-smashing 400 southern border-jumpers who flagged on the FBI terrorism watch list through July 2024, 99 more accidentally released, the round-up of eight Tajikistani crossers in an FBI counterterrorism sting, a manhunt for 400 released migrants brought in by an ISIS smuggling network, and too many other troubling incidents to recount here.
But an alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York State now demands that American attention and diplomatic pressure be turned on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented mass legal immigration policies and the resulting spike in illegal crossings southward across the U.S. border, as my colleague Art Arthur has recently detailed.
