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THREAD: With the caravan in Tijuana, concerns over terrorists joining caravans have been dismissed as a fear tactic.

Yet the truth is that at least 15 terrorists have been apprehended at the border since 9/11.

Throughout the day, we'll highlight all 15.
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Terrorist #1: Abdulahi Sharif of Somalia.

In 2011, Sharif was smuggled through Latin America into California. In 2017, he stabbed a police officer and conducted two vehicle ramming attacks in Edmonton while flying an ISIS flag.

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Terrorst #2: Ibrahim Qoordheen of Somalia

Qoordheen was intercepted by Costa Rican authorities en route to the US-Mexico border. Costa Rica confirmed he had links to an international terrorist organization--likely al-Shabaab.
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Terrorist #3: Unidentified Afghan national

In 2017, US authorities caught a Pakistani smuggler who brought an Afghan national associated with the Taliban into the country.

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Terrorists #4 and #5: Muhammad Azeem and Mukhtar Ahmad of Pakistan

Border patrol agents apprehended Azeem and Ahmad just north of Tijuana. Both were on US terrorism watch lists, and one had already associated with a known terrorist.

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Terrorist #6: Unnamed Somali national

This Somali entrant admitted to U.S. officials that two months prior to his border entry to claim asylum he had completed training for a suicide attack in Mogadishu involving suicide belts, AK-47s, and grenades.

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Terrorist #7: Unnamed Sri Lankan national

This Sri Lankan was apprehended by Border Patrol agents in Texas. He belonged to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a US-designated foreign terrorist organization that he was hoping to re-establish abroad.

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Terrorist #8: Unnamed Somali national

This Somali individual crossed the border in San Ysidro, Calif. He was on multiple U.S. terrorism watch lists. His mother, father, and four siblings also were on terrorism watch lists.

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Terrorist #9: Unnamed Bangladeshi national

One of two Bangladeshis apprehended after illegally crossing from Mexico admitted to Border Patrol that both had worked in the "General Assembly" for the terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh.

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Terrorist #10: Abdullahi Omar Fidse of Somalia

He had served as an al-Shabaab operative, crossed the US border, had the number of a terrorist implicated in the 2010 Uganda bombing that killed 70 soccer fans, and planned to assassinate a US ambassador.
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Terrorist #11: Mohammad Ahmad Dhakane of Somalia

In 2010, Dhakane was convicted on asylum fraud charges derived from an FBI terrorism investigation, which began when he was recorded speaking about his work as a terrorist to an undercover informant.

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Terrorist #12: Farida Goolam Ahmed of Pakistan

Ahmed operated an MQM safe house in Johannesburg that provided shelter for terrorists "on the run", to include a participant in a 1995 ambush murder of two U.S. consulate employees in Karachi, Pakistan

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Terrorist #13: Muhammad Kourani of Lebanon

Kourani, who entered the US illegally by foot, knew that at least three of his sons were dangerous Hezbollah operatives, including one who plotted bombings and assassinations in the US.

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Terrorist #14: Al-Manar Television employee of Lebanon

This Lebanese national, who was smuggled into California from Mexico, worked for the television station of a US-designated terror group.

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Terrorist #15: Mahmoud Kourani of Lebanon

Kourani, a "fighter, recruiter, and fund-raiser" for Hezbollah, was smuggled into the US in 2001. He had been trained in radical Shiite fundamentalism, weaponry, and spy craft in Lebanon.

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In one hour, CIS will be hosting an immigration newsmaker conversation with @RepGoodlatte.

You can watch the event live: cis.org/Press-Release/…
The live conversation with @JessicaV_CIS and @RepGoodlatte is now beginning:

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.@MarkSKrikorian on pressuring countries to stop the migrant caravan:

"There are plenty of ways we can pressure these countries. What's the point of being a superpower if we can't even get a tiny country in our backyard to do what we want?"

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"Even under Obama, 80% of asylum claims were denied.

But the point is, they're already in the US. They've now been working for several years while their case is going on. And when they're finally denied at the end, they just don't show up" -@MarkSKrikorian
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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

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