Biden Regime 18,000 Let ‘Known and Suspected’ Terrorists Into US

“The Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry into the country just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another.”

The thousands of known and suspected terrorists are also implementing a “new playbook” that is “decentralized,” according to the NCTC director, like “the attacks of Oct. 7.”

In explosive testimony before Congress, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent revealed that the Biden administration allowed roughly 18,000 known or suspected terrorists to enter the United States — individuals tied to ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other jihadist organizations who “under normal circumstances would never be allowed in.” Kent detailed how expedited vetting and lax border controls enabled thousands of Afghans and other foreign nationals with terror links to slip into the country, including several who later plotted or carried out attacks. Recent cases — from ISIS-inspired murder plots in Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., to a Hamas-linked operative who infiltrated the U.S. Air Force — underscore what Kent called a “new decentralized playbook” of small-cell terror operations now operating inside America. Intelligence officials warn that hundreds more ISIS-affiliated migrants, cartel members, and gang operatives are already roaming the country. Kent’s testimony paints a grim picture: years of open-border policies have created a massive domestic security threat that federal agencies are now scrambling to contain.

Trump official warns 18K ‘known and suspected’ terrorists in US, blames Biden for attack on National Guard

By Josh Christenson, NY Post, Dec. 11, 2025:

WASHINGTON — As many as 18,000 terrorists entered the US during the Biden administration, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent revealed during a House committee hearing on Thursday.

“So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country,” Kent testified before the House Homeland Security Committee.

“These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda,” he said.

“Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry into the country just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another.”

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The FBI foiled other ISIS terror attacks in Michigan and New Jersey earlier this year.

A self-described Hamas operative also infiltrated the ranks of the US Air Force in 2023 and later planned to carry out a pipe bomb attack with two others — before he was thwarted in April.

Before Trump took office, a suspected ISIS terrorist mowed down and shot at New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people.

Kent pointed out in the House hearing that the accused National Guard shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was “just one of 88,000” Afghans — and his counterterrorism office has since “identified 2,000 of that group of 88,000 who have ties to terrorist organizations.”

Another Afghan national was arrested and charged this month for threatening to carry out a suicide bombing before Thanksgiving, while a third was collared in Virginia on Dec. 3 for providing weapons to his father, an ISIS-K commander, The Post first reported.

A fourth was let into the US by the Biden administration and later schemed to carry out an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack last year.

All five — including Lakanwal — entered the country as part of the 88,000 that received expedited vetting to settle in the US under former President Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program.

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An official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told The Post that hundreds of other ISIS-affiliated migrants are roaming the country, including 4,000 from a Central Asian smuggling network and 600 Tajiks and Uzbeks.

The NCTC has also identified hundreds of MS-13, Tren de Aragua and Sinaloa cartel members and notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prioritize their arrests and deportations, the official added.

Stunningly, Kent claimed in the hearing that the remaining 16,000 with terror ties who didn’t originate from Afghanistan doesn’t even include migrants “who came here illegally through the open border.”

The Trump administration recently warned Americans that the US was at “heightened risk of terrorist attacks,” Kent said, noting risks from “terrorists, pretty much of all stripes, but in particular from ISIS and from al-Qaeda.”