DAN HART
Amid a rise in terrorist attacks across the globe in the wake of the October 7 massacre in Israel, national security experts are warning that the threat of attacks on U.S. soil has risen dramatically even as the Biden administration enacts policies that exacerbate the danger.
In December, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, remarking that before October 7, "we were already in a heightened threat environment." But since the Hamas attack, he went on, "we've seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole other level."
Wray also highlighted the porous southern border as a primary security risk to the country, drawing attention to "a particular network [operating on the southern border]" with "ISIS ties that we are very concerned about."
In the weeks following President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021, he signed an executive order that reversed many of his predecessor Donald Trump's policies that had tightened the flow of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. As a result, an unprecedented 1.7 million unvetted individuals have crossed into the U.S. interior undetected since then, which is more than were able to sneak in in the entire previous decade.
As Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, explained during Tuesday's "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins," this breach could have devastating consequences for national security, especially in light of the security hole left by Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021.
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