A migrant from Lebanon who was attempting to cross the southern U.S. border illegally said he was a member of Hezbollah and planned to build a bomb if he got into America.
However, he later told authorities that he did not want to kill people and was trying to flee Lebanon because “once you’re in, you can never get out,” Knewz.com has learned.
The revelations were part of documents obtained by the New York Post in which the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) in which Basel Basel Ebbadi made terrorist threats to officials in El Paso, Texas.
When Ebbadi was undergoing his medical checkup and asked why he had come to America, the man said, “I’m going to try to make a bomb.” He was referred to the Tactical Terrorism Response Team because he made “terroristic threats to personnel.”
Ebbadi said he had trained in Hezbollah for seven years and then spent another four years guarding weapons, according to the report. He said his focus in the organization was killing non-muslims.
The migrant, who had no documents and said they had been stolen at knifepoint in Costa Rica, claimed he spent time in Ecuador and Panama this year, and he was marked for deportation by immigration officials.
There has been a spike of people detained on the southern border who are on the U.S. terror watchlist, but that may be in part due to the fact that the government expanded the criteria for inclusion on the list.
In fiscal year 2022, which runs from September through September, 98 people on the list were detained, and that number nearly doubled in 2023 to 172. To start 2024, 59 people on the list have been apprehended.
Hezbollah, which Iran finances, operates on the northern border of Israel, mainly in Lebanon.
In January 2023, the group fired dozens of rockets into Israel, targeting the inhabitants around Mount Meron, which is the tallest mountain in Israel and has special significance to the Jewish population.
The barrage of 62 rockets prompted security alerts in 90 communities in northern Israel.
As for the U.S., immigration has risen in prominence as a major source of debate in the 2024 presidential election.
In early March, Republican nominee Donald Trump promised mass deportations if he were to get elected.
Last Saturday, Trump said at a rally that some undocumented migrants are not people. “I don’t know if you call them people,” he said. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”
Experts have consistently said that dehumanization is one of the important steps a society takes on the road toward genocide.
President Joe Biden has criticized the rhetoric from the Trump rallies, saying he is “doubling down on political violence.” But he has also overseen an immigration system that the GOP believes is a winning argument for why he should be voted out of office.
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