Nor should anyone else. It's been years in the making, but the Chinese advance party has finally landed. The Walz liaison team is nearly in place.
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| Top Biden official put on notice for refusing to reveal key info on terror watchlist migrants |
| 2024-09-06 |
| [FoxNews] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is facing a grilling from Congress for the Biden administration’s refusal to turn over the nationalities of people arrested on the FBI terror watchlist at the border by Border Patrol. "I suspect that the real reason you’re unlawfully withholding this information about terror suspects’ nationalities isn’t due to privacy or security concerns, but rather partisan concerns that it would alarm the American people," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in a letter to Mayorkas. "Once again, you’re attempting to hide evidence of the Biden-Harris administration’s border crisis." Customs and Border Protection (CBP) wrote to Fox News last week again denying a request to provide the nationalities of suspects on the FBI terror watchlist arrested at the southern border between ports of entry by Border Patrol. The watchlist, now called the Terrorist Screening Dataset, includes known or suspected terrorists, as well as additional individuals believed to pose a potential threat to the U.S., including affiliates of individuals on the watchlist. The request sought only the nationalities of those encountered and no further information, but it was denied. Fox made the request in October last year, and was initially denied in May, citing privacy and security concerns. The agency doubled down on that reasoning last week. "[Customs and Border Protection (CBP)] is committed to protecting the identity of individuals and avoiding divulging information about any individual by either direct or indirect means," the agency said in a letter to Fox. "Releasing data for a particular nationality, or nationalities, that reflect a small number of individuals could lead to identification, especially by organizations familiar with the individuals." The agency also claimed that the release of the information would reveal investigative techniques used in processing and apprehending terrorists. "By providing this information, it could allow targets to alter their behavior to avoid detection and exploit the gaps in CBP’s law enforcement intelligence, as well as compromise national security. Additionally, providing the requested information could disclose terrorist travel trends by geographic area which could help tip off terrorists about the government’s knowledge of travel plans, allowing the terrorists to take countermeasures against the investigators and their investigations," it says. The agency argued that the disclosure of nationalities could allow bad actors "to undertake countermeasures to avoid CBP’s law enforcement activities and exploit any vulnerabilities in CBP’s law enforcement efforts." Cotton, however, was not convinced by the reasoning provided. "Of course, if the Biden-Harris administration impartially enforced our laws and deported illegal aliens regardless of their origin, terrorists wouldn’t be able to game the system in the manner you describe." He later says that "the American people have a right to know who is crossing our border, especially when those illegal aliens have ties to terrorism." "And that right, contrary to your bizarre assertion, ‘far outweighs’ the privacy rights of illegal aliens suspected of terrorism,’ he said. "Honestly I can’t believe I even have to write that sentence." The letter requests the information by Sept. 10. There were 172 encounters of nationals on the terror watchlist at the border between ports of entry last fiscal year and more than 560 at the ports of entry. Related: Alejandro Mayorkas 09/05/2024 Migrant, Accused of Molesting Boy, Was Flown to U.S. via Parole Pipeline Alejandro Mayorkas 08/24/2024 16 GOP-led States Sue to Block Biden's 'Parole-in-Place' Amnesty Alejandro Mayorkas 08/21/2024 Panama starts returning migrants on US-funded flights Related: Tom Cotton 08/16/2024 Kamala Harris Stonewalls Congressional Probe Into NatSec Adviser's Ties to Iran Influence Network Tom Cotton 08/03/2024 48 Republican Senators Write to Biden: Lift Partial Arms Embargo Against Israel Tom Cotton 07/25/2024 Tom Cotton: A green card does not give individuals the right to break our laws in support of anti-Semitic views |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Call me when one of these people goes to jail. Or, at least, have to leave the country. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-06 06:29 |
| #2 Mayorkas and Garland...two traitors of the absolute highest order. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-09-06 04:22 |
| #1 Nor should anyone else. It's been years in the making, but the Chinese advance party has finally landed. The Walz liaison team is nearly in place. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-06 03:59 |