A report came out Sunday morning that may have been overlooked due to the fact that our attention was, understandably, focused on the deadly shooting at Brown University and the terrorist attack on Chanukah-celebrating Jews in Australia, but there was some important information revealed that needs to be discussed. Namely, senior United States intelligence officials have now confirmed that President Biden had been made aware of the fact that hundreds of Afghan nationals with terrorist ties were being allowed into the country without proper vetting, and he chose to ignore those warnings.
According to the report, officials had flagged to the Biden administration over 1,000 Afghans with ties to the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations who had entered the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome, which resettled persons who had aided operations in Afghanistan. Those concerns apparently fell on deaf ears, with Biden prioritizing "mass migration over security" and completely disregarding those warnings that “identified terrorist threats."
This information merely reinforces the mounting pile of evidence that Biden willingly suspended the vetting system typically used by the U.S. government in order to evacuate Afghans as the Taliban retook the country following his administration's bungled withdrawal.
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Simon Hankinson, a former diplomat who is now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explained: "The deliberate decision was taken to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghan nationals and their immediate relatives on the premise that the principal applicants had rendered significant service to the US government effort in Afghanistan." Hankison added that, in the administration's rush to evacuate families, the U.S. didn't have the "time or means” to ensure those with terror ties were being weeded out and denied entry into the country.
Despite claims by Biden administration officials that they performed thorough background checks on all Afghan evacuees, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general discovered that border agents lacked “critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees” because they were not provided basic information like names and dates of birth, nor did they have access to the evacuees' travel documents.
All of this takes on a renewed importance and urgency in the wake of Sunday's brutal massacre at Bondi Beach. It's becoming abundantly clear that too many western countries have put out the welcome mat for Islamists without first doing proper due diligence, all in the name of diversity. And it's the citizens who pay the price when the government doesn't do its job.
Right here in the U.S., too many of these "Afghan nationals" have turned out to be individuals that should have never been allowed into the country. One shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he gunned down two West Virginia National Guardsmen as they protected the streets of Washington, D.C., resulting in the death of Sarah Beckstrom and serious injuries to her colleague, Andrew Wolfe. Just days before that, another one was arrested in Texas after making terroristic threats on TikTok.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been in the media in recent days reassuring Americans that the Trump administration is now "revetting" the nearly 1,000 Afghan nationals living in the U.S. who've been identified as having ties to terrorist groups. Said Gabbard, "We know that Al Qaeda and ISIS continue to actively plot attacks against our homeland."
As I've written before, cleanup in Aisle Biden continues apace.
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