FBI Director Christopher Wray was on the Hill this week testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the “Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment” — Wray shared his concerns about President Biden’s weak southern border.
Wray revealed the dangers of Biden’s border during questioning from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
“I worry that among the people that are coming across the border that are evading law enforcement, that there are some people among those that mean to do us harm. Do you share that concern?” Cornyn asked Wray.
“I do,” the director replied.
Cornyn asked Wray about a group from Uzbekistan being smuggled into the U.S. by an ISIS terrorist group.
“So that’s a threat stream that we’re very concerned about,” Wray said.
“We’re very actively investigating working with DHS [Department of Homeland Security] on both people whose travel was facilitated but also members of the facilitation network in some other way overseas.”
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) also questioned Wray, asking him about whether any international smuggling operations were conducted by people connected to “ISIS or other terrorist organization.”
“There is a particular network that has … where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that we’re very concerned about, and we’ve been spending enormous amounts of effort with our partners investigating exactly what that network is up to,” Wray said.
“From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border, and that includes everything from the drug trafficking, and the FBI alone sees enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people,” Wray continued.
“That’s just on the fentanyl side. An awful lot of violent crime in the United States is at the hands of gangs who are themselves involved in the distribution of that fentanyl.”
Watch a clip from the exchange below:
FBI Director Christopher Wray admits "dangerous individuals of a variety of sorts" have entered the US.
"We are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border."
Wray avoids discussing organized crime and dangerous gangs like Tren de Aragua. pic.twitter.com/Bm2tTKWh1c
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