There has been a new development in the case of the two Chinese siblings who attempted to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) at MacDill Air Force Base's visitor center in Tampa, Florida. Not only is this brother and sister terrorist combo now accused of trying to blow up an American military installation, but we learned on Friday that they were anchor babies for Chinese illegal alien parents. The parents were arrested in March.
HUGE: The Chinese-Americans accused of attempting to explode an IED at MacDill Air Force Base Visitor’s center in Tampa were anchor babies for illegal parents, colleague @MaryMargOlohan reports.
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) April 3, 2026
DHS nabbed the duo’s parents, Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, on March 18 for…
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DHS nabbed the duo’s parents, Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, on March 18 for illegal entry.
The parents applied for asylum in 1993, but were denied by an immigration judge, who issued them a deportation order in 1998. The Board of Immigration Appeals repeatedly denied their attempts to have their case reopened.
Despite the repeated denials for status, they remained in the US.
They remained in the U.S. - illegally. They were ordered deported in 1998, and somehow, that never happened.
I reported on the twins' terror attack attempt in March.
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At that time, I wrote:
The FBI, on Thursday, announced indictments against a brother and sister who are charged with an attempted bombing they allegedly attempted to carry out at Florida's MacDill Air Force Base.
This latest update still gives no indication as to the whereabouts of this third sibling. If he's in China, he's probably safe and sound; China won't extradite him.
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What's troubling about this is that the attack wasn't entirely Amateur Hour. The explosive was, as the FBI reported, viable - meaning it would have gone boom. For whatever reason, it failed, and that right there is a stroke of luck.
This incident, however, speaks ever more eloquently of the utter failures of previous administrations to enforce border and immigration laws. These parents, who apparently dropped at least two anchor babies while illegally in the United States, were ordered deported during the second term of President Bill Clinton, for crying out loud, and somehow they managed to evade repatriation and remain, illegally, in the United States. How many more people just like this are out there? Where are these people now, and what are they doing? We don't know - and that's a problem. Just during the eight years of the Biden administration's incompetent non-enforcement, millions of people poured into the United States, from Central and South America, from China, from Iran, from around the globe. This kind of thing is the inevitable result of that non-enforcement.
In March, I wrote on this matter:
Once again, we have allowed millions of people into the United States, many, perhaps mostly, unscreened and unvetted, and this is what we can expect to see as a result. This one, this improvised device, didn't go off. The next one might.
I see no reason to amend that statement.
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