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The following report says 729 Iranian nationals Illegal entry into the United States And released to the country by the Biden administration, experts warned that the policy of hindering ice and federal immigration enforcement in the jurisdiction of the shelter may be the most vulnerable target of Iran-funded terrorist attacks, hoping to retaliate against the U.S. strike over the weekend.
Number of Iranians released by the former president Joe Biden The government has increased continuously every year. From fiscal year 2021 to fiscal year 2024, the Border Patrol arrested a total of 1,504 Iranian nationals. Of the 1,504 arrested people, 729 were released to the United States.
Hours after Trump addressed the country on a military strike on Iranian nuclear sites, the Department of Homeland Security issued a new memorandum that alerted the “American Enhanced Threat Environment.”
The communiqué states: “If the Iranian leader issues a religious verdict calling for retaliation against the targets of the land target, the independent mobilization of violence by land violent extremists may increase.”
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In so-called shelter jurisdictions such as California or Massachusetts, there is a policy or in Los Angeles, the biggest concern is that they are actively blocking the deportation of federal immigration authorities. (ISTOCK and FATEMEH BAHRAMI/ANADOLU via Getty Images)
NBC News Iran reportedly sent a message to Trump at the G7 summit last week that it could activate “sleeping cells” to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States.
“We have to assume that there may be threats,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Border Security and Immigration, told Fox News Digital.
Rees said that while the administration is aware that 729 illegal Iranian immigrants are being released to the country under Biden’s leadership, the real concern is that “we don’t know how many unknowns” people may exist in the United States.
She said the so-called worst concern Shelter Jurisdiction Population with policies or in the case of Los Angeles actively hindering federal immigration authorities from deportation.
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Protesters face police outside a federal building in downtown Los Angeles for anti-Trump “Kings Day” demonstrations in a city, the focus of protests in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
“Democrats She noted that there is a need to start supporting deportation,” she noted that while iced agents are arresting innocent immigrants, many of the illegal persons are serious criminals, or in some cases even terrorists.
Andrew Arthur, an immigration policy expert at the Center for Immigration Research, told Fox News Digital that the “ultimate soft target” of the terrorist attack will be hospitals, especially hospitals in shelter jurisdictions. He noted that Iran recently bombed a hospital in Bersheva, Israel, to prove that the regime is willing to carry out such attacks.
“This is possible in the United States,” Arthur said. “If we try to think of a soft target that can have a catastrophic impact, it would be Hospital. ”
To prevent such attacks, Arthur stressed the importance of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, all working together and actively responding to threats.
Smoke from the building of the Soroka Hospital Building rose on Thursday, June 19, 2025, following a missile fired by Iran by Israel, Be’er Sheva, Iran. (Leo Correa/AP Photo)
“Luckily, DNI [the Director of National Intelligence] You should understand the potential future goals. DNI won’t share this publicly, but all of this should go to state and local law enforcement agencies through the DHS,” he explained.
“The problem is, right now, we have all these state and local law enforcement agencies and shelters,” he said. “It can create its own vulnerability. ”
“This increases the risk,” he continued. “Special In Californiabecause I think many law enforcement agencies in California are confused about what they can and cannot do under SB-54 (the California Values Act bill can and cannot do), so it can create its own vulnerability. ”
That being said, Arthur said the Iran-sponsored terrorist attack in the U.S. could be a “suicide move” by the regime and most likely a “last desperate move.” Even so, Arthur said there is still “real concern” about terrorist attacks within Iran-sponsored U.S. borders.
Other potential mass casualties targets could be the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Times Square, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, or other densely populated open areas. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)
Other potential mass casualties targets could be the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Times Square, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, or other densely populated open areas.
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“The threat is real. Whether they want to use it is a different question, and the Biden administration has exposed the American people to unacceptable levels of threat,” he concluded.
On Monday night, Trump posted on social media: “There has been fully agreed between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and complete ceasefire… Within 12 hours, the war will be considered and it is over!”
Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital and Bill Melugin of Fox News channel contributed to the report.
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