Terror threat

Smuggling networks at work: Illegal immigrants from terrorism hotbeds sneak into U.S. through Mexico

The threat of another terrorist attack hitting the United States has become bigger, no thanks to the migrant problem caused by the raging conflict in the Middle East.

Illegal immigrants from Arab countries known to be hotbeds of terrorist activities have managed to sneak into the U.S. through its Mexican border using a smuggling network, The Washington Times revealed in a report.

Internal government documents reviewed by the newspaper showed that U.S. immigration authorities have so far been able to identify at least a dozen men from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Palestine who have been smuggled into the U.S. through the help of the smuggling network based in Brazil which has contacts in Mexico.

Among those who managed to enter the U.S. through these illegal activities is an Afghan man who has been identified by Homeland Security officials to have family ties to the Taliban and was "involved in a plot to conduct an attack in the U.S. and/or Canada."