The Biden administration locked up or deported just 8 out of more than 100 migrants with suspected ties to ISIS who crossed illegally into the US, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed Wednesday during a visit to the border.
The Trump administration is now working to hunt down the terror suspects and pick up the pieces left behind by the last administration, Gabbard said during a press conference with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Eagle Pass, Texas.
The migrants — from ISIS recruiting hotbed countries in Central Asia — were known to have ties to an “ISIS affiliated network,” the former Democratic congresswoman said.
The Biden administration was previously informed that more than 4,000 migrants utilized the ISIS-tied smugglers to cross into the US and that “hundreds” of them were identified by the feds as “either known terrorists or associated with known terrorists,” said Gabbard.
Gabbard said that when she took over, she found that just of those eight migrants are either still locked up or have been deported.
“That information was provided to the Biden Administration. You may remember in some of the news a little over one hundred of those people were arrested in 2024. Of those who were arrested, only eight were either deported or remained in custody,” she said.
“Only eight, the rest of them were released back into our country. Where are they? What are they doing? What may they be plotting? This is just the beginning,” she added.
Gabbard joined Vance, along with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, for a tour of the southern border in Eagle Pass Wednesday, where they spoke with federal and local leaders and visited a detention center.
While speaking to reporters, Vance touted President Trump’s success in securing the border, where illegal crossings have dropped to their lowest levels in recorded history.
In the area where Eagle Pass is located, daily illegal migrant crossings have dropped from 1,500 to 30, according to Vance.
“It turns out we didn’t need new laws, we didn’t need fancy legislation, we just needed a new president of the United States,” said Vance.
Hegseth echoed Vance’s statement, but said they’re not done and won’t be finished with the job until they have full “operational control” of the area.
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