By KUSI
An Afghani National on the terror watchlist was apprehended near Otay Mesa over the weekend.
The arrest comes after the expiration of President Trump’s successful Title 42 immigration policy, which was allowed to expire under the Biden Administration.
After the expiration, tens of thousands of migrants illegally crossed the US-Mexico border and entered to United States to seek asylum. United States Border Patrol were severely overwhelmed, the Biden Administration had to send in the National Guard to certain areas to help.
Those who disagree with President Joe Biden’s decision to “open our borders” with the expiration of Title 42 warned of the dangers of allowing so many people into the country without proper background checks.
Here in San Diego, we can’t even take care of our own people, our homeless population is at an all-time high, and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Once Title 42 officially expired, the migrants were transported to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Mission Valley to be sheltered and processed, as San Diegans sleep on the streets.
Sunday, United States Border Patrol agents announced the arrest of an Afghan national on the FBI’s terror watchlist who crossed into the United States illegally in San Diego.
Republican Congressman Darrell Issa appeared on KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego after the arrest of this Afghan national, as he blasted the Biden Administration for endangering Americans with the open border policy.
ssa told KUSI’s Lauren Phinney that the Afghan national was not apprehended at the border, “he was apprehended in the United States. In other words, he got in. He was what we often call a runaway, we don’t catch them all, we don’t catch even half of them. This is one now of about 80 people that we would call ‘value targets,’ but this was a fairly high value target from Afghanistan. What it shows so clearly is our border is so porous, that if we’re catching 80 out of 800 who attempt the evade our completely swamped Border Patrol, then that means we have hundreds and hundreds of people who want to hurt America, they are not coming here for a better life…”
Issa emphasized the fact that the rest of the world knows this, and they see the open border policy as an invitation to get into our country.
Congressman Issa released the following statement on the arrest:
“The American people are now seeing the full measure of Joe Biden’s disastrous border failure. It will surely get worse.
From day one, Biden tore up international agreements that were working, tied the hands of front line law enforcement, and sent a message to the world that America’s border was open and our system of asylum would not be enforced.
Is it any surprise that among the five million illegals Biden has permitted to violate our border that some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists have also taken advantage of this presidential chaos to enter our homeland?
Both the president and his border czar VP Harris owe the American people the truth. They also owe the nation a course correction from this disaster. That’s why I’m also I reissuing my invitation to both of them to join me in California, make their first authentic visit to a border, and see with their own eyes what they have caused to happen.”