Day: January 21, 2023

Immigration

Border Patrol nabbed 17 people on FBI terror watch list at southern border in December Customs and Border Protection's latest numbers mean that [there] have been 38 terror watch list encounters on the border since October

January 21, 2023 and   

(Fox) Border Patrol agents stopped 17 people on the FBI’s terror watch list at the southern border in December, bringing the total of individuals arrested at the southern border to 38 already for the current fiscal year. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) […]

Context

IRGC has ‘outreach center’ in historically Jewish district of London — report Director of Islamic Centre of England reportedly called anti-regime Iranians 'soldiers of Satan'

January 21, 2023   

(i24) Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has an outreach center in London, located in a historically Jewish district of the British capital, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Friday. Tory lawmaker Alicia Kearns urged Downing Street to shutter the Islamic Centre […]

Government & Politics

Jack Letts’s mother hails ‘rights victory’ as Canadians to be repatriated from Syria Sally Lane, mother of British-Canadian man detained in Syrian camp, exclusively tells MEE that judgement will have 'global implications'

January 21, 2023 and   

(Middle East Eye) The mother of Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man held among suspected Islamic State group (IS) fighters in prison in northeast Syria, has hailed Canada’s decision to repatriate him along with 22 other of its citizens. Speaking to Middle East Eye, Sally […]