The threat of terrorists entering the United States is at its highest level since the 9/11 attacks because of the "very porous southern border" and once they are in the country, it becomes difficult to fight the threat of danger, former acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said in Newsmax Sunday.
"We have the traditional law enforcement apparatus here in the United States, as well as the FBI and other federal agencies to deal with threats that are already here, but I think the best prevention here is to make sure that they don't arrive in the United States," Wolf, who appeared on "Wake Up America" with National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, commented.
He added that in the three years since President Joe Biden took office, more than 330 known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended, and "those are the ones that are dumb enough to get caught."
Judd, meanwhile, pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security was established to ensure another 9/11 would never happen.
"When they took the border patrol from the Department of Justice and put us into DHS, they expected that we were going to be able to secure our borders and ensure that nobody crossed our borders illegally," Judd said.
"When you look at the cartels, and you look at how they're operating, and the way that they're able to create gaps in our coverage and get people into the United States that are able to evade apprehension, it's a very scary prospect," he said.
However, the border situation has become a political situation, with the left wanting open borders and the right wanting to shut them down, Judd said.
"We want to protect the American people, and we just can't do it right now because we're being handcuffed," said Judd.
Meanwhile, Senate negotiators last week reached a deal on a proposal to overhaul the asylum system, but Wolf said that it was the Biden administration that caused the current situation, not Congress.
"If you recall in the first 100 days of this administration, they issued 94 separate executive actions on immigration that caused this crisis," he said. "The easiest, the best thing that they could do right now is to reverse course, remove those policies in place and go back to what works. A number of things during the Trump administration worked to secure that border."
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