Afghan evacuees with child-fondling, terror arrests swept up in DHS crackdown after botched vetting exposed
EXCLUSIVE: Afghan evacuees with rap sheets that include convictions for sexual battery and lewd acts with a minor and arrests for alleged child-fondling and terror-group support were among the "worst...
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EXCLUSIVE : Afghan evacuees with rap sheets that include convictions for sexual battery and lewd acts with a minor and arrests for alleged child-fondling and terror-group support were among the "worst of the worst" recently swept up by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. DHS released the list days after one former Afghan evacuee allegedly shot two West Virginia National Guard members, killing one, and another was charged in a Newark, Del., terror plot. The agency says the arrests reveal explosive failures in the 2021 vetting system that rushed evacuees into the country after Kabul fell. Biden administration officials insisted their 2021 Operation Allies Welcome vetting was sound, but a senior DHS official said the president’s "trust without verification" approach to evacuee backgrounds helped drive the recent surge in attacks and plots. "Under Secretary Noem, DHS has been going full throttle on identifying and arresting known or suspected terrorists and criminal illegal aliens that came in through Biden’s fraudulent parole programs," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "When Joe Biden let 190,000 Afghan nationals in, they didn’t do criminal background checks, vet social media, someone just vouched for them, and they took the words as truth." BONDI WARNS OF VETTING FAILURES AFTER 'FRIGHTENING' ARREST OF AFGHAN NATIONAL FOR BOMB THREATS IN TEXAS DHS has captured sexual predators, terror suspects, pedophiles and other violent "unvetted" foreigners in their persistent daily work of executing President Donald Trump ’s immigration enforcement orders, the agency added in a statement. Not all of the arrests have involved Afghan evacuees. ICE arrests have included Iraqi "criminal illegal alien" Ziaulhaq Faqiri, who entered the U.S. as a "special immigrant Iraqi employee" during former President Joe Biden’s term. Faqiri’s criminal history includes convictions for "carnal abuse" and sexual assault. PATEL BLASTS BIDEN'S 'EMBLEMATIC FAILURE' AFTER AFGHAN NATION…