Recently retired border sector chief Aaron Heitke is claiming that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime has been covering up the rising number of known terrorists that Border Patrol has caught coming across the border.
The now former San Diego Sector chief told members of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that Biden has been lying by trying to “convince the public that there was no threat at the border.”
According to The Blaze:
“The fact that so many illegal aliens are being released into the United States spread worldwide very quickly,” said Heitke, adding that Border Patrol was soon inundated with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens keen to turn themselves in — many of whom were apparently flown to Texas.
According to the former sector chief, the immediate consequence of this surge was that 60%-90% and sometimes all of the agents on duty were pulled away from the border, leaving it virtually unguarded, such that “Border Patrol zones across Texas, Arizona, and California had no agent presence for weeks and months at a time.”
As a result, those illegal aliens who didn’t want to bother turning themselves in with millions of others could simply walk into the U.S., said Heitke, emphasizing, “We have no idea who and what entered our country over this time.”
Heitke also noted that “in San Diego we had an exponential increase in Significant Interest Aliens. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism.”
Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) are people who either have known ties directly to terror organizations, or have ties to people who do have such known ties. In other words, they are possible, if not likely terrorists. Yet Biden is just allowing all of them to come right in, free as you please.
Heitke added:
“Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023, and more than that this year. These are only the ones we caught,” said Heitke.
It’s unclear how many of the millions of “gotaways” who have stolen into the country while Harris was border czar have ties to terrorists or are themselves terrorists.
“At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public that there was no threat at the border.”
Biden and Harris have made this country far, far less safe.
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