Biden admin evacuated 55 Afghans on terror watchlist to US during botched withdrawal

 US officials encountered 55 Afghan evacuees on the terrorist watchlist after the Biden administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. 

The report, released Tuesday, confirmed longstanding suspicions from Republican lawmakers that the Biden administration failed to properly vet US-bound refugees as the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan.  

“I’ve sounded the alarm about the need to thoroughly vet Afghan evacuee applicants since August 2021,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement, reacting to the DOJ IG report. “The Biden-Harris administration, my Democrat colleagues in Congress and many in the media were quick to dismiss glaring red flags that a nonpartisan national security analysis now confirms.” 

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Grassley charged that the Biden administration endangered the lives of Americans by allowing improperly vetted Afghan refugees into the US.AP

The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) identified 55 Afghans that were either already on the terrorist watchlist and made it to a US port of entry or were added to the database during the evacuation and resettlement process, the report found. 

Of those, at least 21 were added to the terror list after they had already entered the US.

After investigations, the FBI eventually removed 46 evacuees from the watchlist, determining that they posed no threat to the homeland.  

However, nine remained in the terror database as of July 2024 and eight were in the US. 

“As if it wasn’t already obvious, the Biden-Harris administration endangered American lives by allowing suspected terrorists to enter the United States and roam free for years,” Grassley argued, noting that his “oversight of this matter will continue.”

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The Biden administration hastily evacuated tens of thousands of Afghans as the country fell to the Taliban in 2021.AFP via Getty Images

Roughly 90,000 Afghans were allowed entry into the US and became eligible for Special immigrant Visas under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Refuge (OAR) and Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) programs, which provided the foreign nationals immigration processing and resettlement support.

“According to the FBI, the need to immediately evacuate Afghans overtook the normal processes required to determine whether individuals attempting to enter the United States pose a threat to national security, which increased the risk that bad actors could try to exploit the expedited evacuation,” the DOJ IG report stated.  

Despite the 55 individuals flagged, the DOJ inspector general determined that overall “each of the responsible elements of the FBI effectively communicated and addressed any potential national security risks identified.” 

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As of July 2024, eight Afghans on the FBI’s terror watchlist were still in the United States.AP

Last October, the DOJ charged an Afghan national brought into the US during the chaotic withdrawal with plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was living in Oklahoma City on a Special Immigrant Visa as he took steps to stockpile AK-47 rifles and ammunition to carry out an attack on US soil “in the name of ISIS,” according to the Justice Department.

Tawhedi entered the US on Sept. 9, 2021, just weeks after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan and the last US troops departed from the war-torn nation. 

Tawhedi was charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and is currently awaiting trial.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/us-news/biden-admin-evacuated-55-afghans-on-terror-watchlist-to-us-during-botched-withdrawal-doj-watchdog/

US, China Officials Agree on Plan That Awaits Xi, Trump Sign-Off

 

The US and China capped two days of high-stakes trade talks with a plan to revive the flow of sensitive goods — a framework now awaiting the blessing of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/us-china-officials-say-consensus-reached-on-geneva-framework

Lefty nonprofits are openly fueling LA riots by handing out ‘F–k ICE’ protective gear

 Leftwing non-profit groups are openly helping to fuel anti-ICE riots here by handing out “F–k ICE” packs with protective equipment — as protesters continue to take over downtown every night and engage in rolling battles with cops, federal agents and National Guard troops. 

Chilling footage revealed one unidentified group handing out a truckload of face shields and other riot gear to protesters in downtown Los Angeles. 

The “F–k ICE” packages — which include goggles, facemasks, gloves and a phone number for “jail support” — are being assembled and distributed by a non-profit called Operation Healthy Hearts.

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Grassroots organizations are making and distributing “F–k ICE” PPE kitsoperationhealthyhearts/Instagram

It’s just one of several organizations that started as grassroots community aid agencies, but have been waded into politics and thrown their weight behind left wing street protests.

At least one group received federal funding before the Trump administration turned off the spigot.

“[The federal government] cut off our funding for other reasons, so we really have nothing left to lose,” LA Poverty Department COO Pamela Miller told The Post.

That group, an arts nonprofit that operates the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, allowed another organization to use their building to distribute PPE packages for protesters on Monday.

Among the items available at the museum were anarchist pamphlets that advocate for setting cops cars on fire, burning down police precincts and targeting banks and ATMs as part of “direct action” against police.

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Groups are also handing out pamphlets explaining how to evade police.Jared Downing/ NY Post

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Groups were seen handing out truckloads of riot gear to protesters in Los Angeles Monday afternoonFOX11

The pamphlets also include instructions on how to thwart police anti-riot tactics.

Miller, however, dismissed the violence that has overtaken LA every night as “a few knuckleheads doing stupid s–t.”

“The immigrant community is important. And they are vulnerable. [ICE] say we want to get rid of the criminals. Then where are they going? To churches, to schools,” Miller said. “They’re targeting people who can’t protect themselves.”

She added: “We want to support people’s rights to stand up to authoritarian takeover, and however many knuckleheads are doing stupid s–t, that doesn’t make us want to back away from standing up for our neighbors’ rights.”

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Operation Healthy Hearts is one of the groups making the “F–k ICE” kits.operationhealthyhearts/Instagram

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The LA Poverty Department also handed out PPE kits in the wake of the protests that have impacted the Los Angeles community.operationhealthyheartshomegurlswap/Instagram

Los Angeles has been a bed of chaos since protests against ICE descended into scenes of chaos by day and looting by night, with tensions intensifying as President Trump ordered thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines into the city to restore order.

LA Poverty Department was handing out PPE in the midst of that with the help of another community group, the Mutual Aid /Social Therapy (MAST), which describes itself as “a decentralized project that uses the principles of mutual aid to put the tools of the psychological disciplines in the hands of the people.”

But rather than focusing on spreading therapy practices, the group has been passing out goggles and gear to help protesters evade teargas and rubber bullets, while stoking anti-law enforcement sentiment on social media.

Like the other groups, Operation Healthy Hearts generally organizes community service like food drives for the homeless on LA’s Skid Row, but in addition to creating the “F–k ICE PPE” packs has a long history of pumping out leftwing rhetoric on its social media — and has been denouncing law enforcement since protests started Friday.

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A volunteer who handed out PPE kits, Alexandra Pierce, said, “Police are attacking journalists and protesters. We need people to look out for each other.”AP

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Protests broke out in LA Friday after ICE raided numerous workplaces across the city, hauling off those who are suspected illegal immigrants.AP

“Police are attacking journalists and protesters. We need people to look out for each other,” said Alexandra Pierce, a volunteer for the group who was handing out PPE kits in the middle of protests on Tuesday.

“I want to help people in need, and I just feel very passionate about the politics of this and want to help protect people any way I can,” she added.

Another group that has been advertising the “F–k ICE” kits, Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network (MALAN), says it’s a central information network for aid groups and non-profits — including MAST and Operation Healthy Hearts.

Operation Healthy Hearts only just received its tax-exempt nonprofit status last month, and bills itself as a homeless outreach group that runs food banks and helps provide public health resources to the homeless population.

MALAN was founded in March 2020 in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also has a history of throwing its weight behind partisan leftwing causes on social media, including anti-Israel protests.

Protests broke out in LA Friday after ICE raided numerous workplaces across the city and hauled off suspected illegal immigrants.

Demonstrators then tried to pre-empt ICE arrivals at other locations and block their efforts, and picketed a downtown detention center where detainees were being held.

But ICE says many of the people they arrested in their raids are known criminals with alarming rap sheets — including some with convictions for violent attempted rapes, and even murder.

Some of the protests quickly turned violent, with city streets being left littered with burning cars by days and looters ransacking storefronts by night.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/us-news/lefty-nonprofits-are-openly-fueling-la-riots-by-handing-out-f-k-ice-protective-gear/

Mexican Senate President Revives Territorial Claims Amid Los Angeles Civil Unrest

 On Monday, Mexican Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña publicly displayed an 1830 map of Mexico during a press conference, emphasizing that Mexico once held sovereignty over California, Texas, and much of the modern-day U.S. Southwest. 

Noroña's gesture could be viewed as a nationalist provocation, subtly reinforcing irredentist intentions at a time when foreign nationals and dark-money-funded, Marxist-aligned NGOs are sparking civil unrest in Los Angeles—widespread looting, arson, and violent clashes with both local and federal law enforcement.

"We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland," Noroña emphasized. 

U.S. Conservative legal scholar Randy Barnett wrote on X, "So I guess it's an invasion then, and these are enemy aliens. Attention SCOTUS." 

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