Joe Biden’s wide open border let an Afghan illegal, who is a terrorist and on the terror watch list, into the country last year in March.
After initially being apprehended by the Border Patrol on the suspicion of being on the terror watch list, 48 year-old Mohammad Kharwin was set free for lack of corroborating evidence. Neither the FBI nor ICE was contacted about Kharwin.
Kharwin was then arrested last month, but the judge set him free because no one told the judge Kharwin is a terrorist. He’s still in the country and roaming free right now.
Kharwin is part of Hezb-e-Islami, which has killed nine American soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan nearly a decade ago.
Here’s more via NBC News:
An Afghan migrant on the terror watchlist spent nearly a year inside the U.S. after being apprehended and released by Border Patrol agents in 2023, U.S. officials tell NBC News. The Afghan national was arrested last month and then released again by an immigration judge who was not told he was a national security threat.
Mohammad Kharwin, 48, is currently out on bond as he awaits an immigration hearing in Texas, scheduled for 2025. There are no restrictions on his movements inside the United States, U.S. officials said.
Kharwin was initially apprehended on March 10, 2023, near San Ysidro, California, after crossing the Mexico-U.S. border illegally.
Border agents suspected he was on the U.S. terrorist watchlist at the time of his apprehension because one piece of information matched an individual on the list. But the agents lacked corroborating information, which officials declined to describe, that would confirm Kharwin was the person they suspected, according to U.S. officials.
After processing Kharwin and taking his biometric data, Customs and Border Protection released him as they would any other migrant, without contacting the FBI or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. officials said.
Kharwin was then able to apply for asylum and work authorization, and fly domestically in the United States, the officials said.
Kharwin is on the national terror watchlist maintained by the FBI, which contains the names of 1.8 million individuals considered potential security risks. The database indicates he is a member of Hezb-e-Islami, or HIG, a political and paramilitary organization that the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization.
According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, HIG is a “virulently anti-Western insurgent group” that sought to overturn the Western-backed Afghan government before its fall in 2021.
HIG was responsible for attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least nine American soldiers and civilians between 2013 and 2015. The group is not seen as a top threat in terms of attacks inside the U.S.