Texas Alerts on ISIS Terrorists and Terrorist Wanna-Bes Breaching Borders

Texas Department of Public Safety officials said in a recently released report that several ISIS terrorists, or terrorist wanna-bes, have been caught trying to sneak across America’s southern border with Mexico in recent months.

Since 2012, officials have recorded 13 trying to cross from America into Mexico, or planning to cross from America to Mexico, in order to carry out terror-tied plans.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism wrote:

“Most of those cases involved people who knew they were on the federal no-fly list but wanted to travel to join terrorists, the report said. Sneaking across the southern border “presents an opportunity for increasing numbers of aspiring foreign terrorist fighters to evade US interdiction efforts such as the No-Fly List.”

“The most recent example happened in October. Texas authorities arrested two Milwaukee men near San Angelo, Texas on the way to the Mexican border. Jason Ludke, 35, and Yosvany Padilla-Conde, 30, wanted to go to Mexico, obtain fraudulent travel documents and travel to join ISIS in Syria or Iraq.

“In another instance in April 2015, seven Somali men from Minnesota tried to cross from San Diego into Mexico in an effort to get to Syria and fight for ISIS.

“Texas resident Bilal Hamed Abood, an Iraq-born naturalized U.S. citizen, successfully used the border in 2013 to travel to Syria, where he fought for a Syrian rebel group. The FBI arrested Abood for lying about his initial travel to Syria when he tried to come home through the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. Abood claimed he fought for a faction that was not prohibited under U.S. law. However, FBI agents search his computer and found that he took an oath of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”

Democrats have scoffed the idea of ISIS using the porous borders, characterizing Republicans’ concerns as far-fetched.

But Texas authorities have been alerting on the possibility for years. As far back as 2014, Texas safety officials said they noticed ISIS was taking to social media to advocate the idea.

And then there’s this, again from IPT:

“In a criminal complaint filed last year, alleged ISIS supporter Erick Jamal Hendricks claimed to have had contact with an ISIS supporter known as “Abu Harb.” “Abu Harb” told Hendricks that he was in Dallas and that the “Islamic State had brothers in Mexico.”

“Previously, government officials warned about threats to the U.S. border posed by other terrorist groups including Al-Shabaab and Hizballah.”