Texas DPS caught an Iranian illegal being smuggled into the US in the trunk of a car.
The Iranian illegal was reported to be on the terror watch list, but Bill Melugin can’t get anyone to comment on this.
Here’s more via Fox News:
Texas law enforcement arrested an Iranian illegal immigrant at the southern border last week whose name and date of birth were initially flagged as a match on the FBI’s terror watch list, but who a DHS official tells Fox News was ultimately determined not to be a match on the database after further vetting.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested 29-year-old Alireza Heidari last week after a traffic stop involving a human smuggler at the border in Val Verde County, Texas as part of Operation Lone Star.
Heidari was being smuggled in the vehicle along with four other illegal immigrants. He was located in the trunk. Fox is told that Heidari was handed over to Border Patrol custody and later determined to be a match of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB).
What’s strange about all of this is that Bill Melugin had several tweets about this, which I intended to post. But they were suddenly just deleted as I was trying to embed them.
I have a feeling it has to do with new information that Fox News has gotten from DHS:
Fox reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Thursday and multiple times since. Only on Tuesday did DHS refer Fox to the FBI, which declined to comment. The FBI’s website says it does not confirm anyone’s status on the watch list.
However, on Wednesday, a DHS official told Fox News that after further vetting, Homeland Security officials determined that Heidari was not a match on the TSDB.
So he’s NOT a match on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database? How is it that Texas DPS determined he was on the TSDB?
In any event this is probably why Melugin deleted his tweets, because he’s allegedly not on the TSDB.
But just to underscore the danger we face from Biden’s out-of-control border, here’s the number of gotaways from the Del Rio sector alone for this past week:
Look at the gotaways numbers in Del Rio sector. Approx 40% of the people coming across the border are successfully evading & escaping into the US w/out apprehension in recent weeks. Yet, the gotaways will not be included in monthly numbers. These 4,300 evaders will not be counted https://t.co/oXHwJeVBqO
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) February 1, 2023
How many Iranian illegals were in this 4,300? How many on the terror watch list were in this number?