FBI director warns of 'dangerous individuals' coming across southern border

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

March 11, 2024, 8:05 PM


Amid a bitter election-year debate over illegal immigration, FBI Director Chris Wray told a Senate panel on Monday that dangerous individuals have entered the United States illegally at the southern border.

"We have had dangerous individuals entering the United States have a variety of sources," Wray said at the annual "Worldwide Threats" congressional hearings at which the heads of U.S. intelligence agencies testify.

"We are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border, " he said, citing drug trafficking in particular. "The FBI alone seized enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people," he said.

Wray, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, CIA Director William Burns, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Jeffery Kruse, NSA Director Timothy Haugh, and State Department Assistant Secretary Brett Holmgren testify before the House and Senate every year and detail threats the U.S. faces.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-warns-dangerous-individuals-coming-southern-border/story?id=108024830

[TexasDem69]

1. Completely unsurprising

Yet Republicans block border legislation at the behest of Trump, who cares only about Trump. He has no serious interest in policy issues.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Just in time for an election year surprise. nt

[Think. Again.]

3. I knew wray was dangerous....

We have dangerous people right here on our home turf, mr. wray.

Oh and this:

The vast majority of fentanyl seized in recent years has been obtained by the OFO, not Border Patrol. The drug was mainly seized from smugglers at legal ports of entry, not illegal border crossings. OFO seizures amounted to 2,600 pounds in 2019 (93 percent of the total fentanyl seized by CBP), 4,000 pounds in 2020 (83 percent), 10,200 pounds in 2021 (91 percent), and 10,900 pounds so far in 2022 (84 percent). The Drug Enforcement Agency confirms the port trend, saying that "the most common method employed [by Mexican cartels] involves smuggling illicit drugs through U.S. [ports of entry] in passenger vehicles with concealed compartments or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor-trailers."
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The fact that so much fentanyl smuggling takes place at legal border crossings helps explain why U.S. citizens are the main traffickers there. "In order to smuggle fentanyl through a port of entry, cartels hire primarily U.S. citizens, who are the least likely to attract heightened scrutiny when crossing into the United States," writes Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council. Reichlin-Melnick analyzed every CBP press release and official Twitter post mentioning fentanyl seizures from December 2021 to May 2022. Only two involved people crossing between ports of entry, and of the 42 incidents where CBP mentioned a smuggler's nationality, 33—or 79 percent—involved U.S. citizens.
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Full Article: https://reason.com/2022/10/17/dont-blame-migrants-and-open-borders-for-fentanyl-entering-the-country/

[Faux pas]

4. Ahem

I really don't consider wray a reliable source for anything. But maybe that's just me.

[wiggs]

5. There are also dangerous people inside the US. nt

[SouthernDem4ever]

6. But's it's easier to grab the non-citizens

The sovereign citizens are harder to deal with - can't just deport them unfortunately. Would love to just send them to Russia or Hungary.

[Mr.Bill]

7. And did he say how much of that fentanyl

was being smuggled by American citizens?

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. They should be PROUD they stopped it from coming

into the US. THAT'S THEIR JOB!!! As long as there is a demand for fentanyl or any other drug, someone is going to bring it in or make it here.

[JoseBalow]

8. Thanks for the info, Chris. Who was it that appointed you again?

Oh, yeah...

[Kennah]

10. Trump crossing the Florida border?

[SunSeeker]

11. Well then tell your fellow Republicans to stop blocking the border bill, Chris!