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Student visa applicants with ‘hostile attitudes’ will be told they can’t come to the U.S. The State Department will start reviewing social media ‘to make America and its universities safer.’

June 18, 2025 Maya Sulkin

(Free Press) State Department employees who review applications from foreign citizens for student and exchange visas will be told to review their social media posts and search for signs that they “bear hostile attitudes toward our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding […]

ICE arrests suspected Al-Qaida operative in Philadelphia

June 4, 2025 Jason Hopkins

(Daily Caller) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a suspected Al-Qaida member residing in a city notorious for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Authorities apprehended a Tajikistan-born Russian national in the early morning hours of May 23 in Philadelphia, […]

Feds dismiss charges against Jordanians who trespassed on military base

November 15, 2024 Stephen Dinan

(Washington Times) The Justice Department has quietly dismissed charges against two Jordanian immigrants who were arrested after encroaching on a Marine base earlier this year, leaving a host of questions about the incident. In court documents, the U.S. attorney in eastern Virginia […]

Illegal Jordanian migrants who ‘tried to breach’ Quantico base allowed to walk free after posting bail

August 1, 2024 Jennie Taer

(NY Post) The two illegal Jordanian migrants who are charged with trying to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in May posted thousands of dollars in bail and were allowed to leave federal custody, the Post can exclusively reveal. Hasan Yousef Hamdan, 32, […]

Concerns grow over unvetted Afghan ‘suspected terrorists’ let into US

March 1, 2022 Paul Bedard

(Washington Examiner) As the Biden administration moves to ship tens of thousands of Afghan refugees into American communities to live, there is growing concern that the vetting process to weed out “known or suspected terrorists,” including those involved in IED attacks on […]

Second major felon found on Afghan evacuation flight

September 16, 2021 Stephen Dinan

(Washington Times) Another Afghan who had been deported from the U.S. after an aggravated felony conviction was found on an evacuation flight back to the U.S. this month, the Washington Times has learned. The man, who had a 2011 conviction for aggravated […]

DHS braces for terror threat on southern border National security officials fear newly freed Afghan terrorists may exploit border crisis

August 24, 2021 Joseph Simonson

(Free Beacon) The Taliban’s release of prisoners throughout Afghanistan poses a security threat on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to senior Department of Homeland Security officials and national security experts. The Taliban freed thousands of prisoners, many of whom either worked directly with […]

Corpus Christi shooter inspired by Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida sources

May 28, 2020 John Rossomando

(IPT) Social media posts by Corpus Christi naval air station shooter Adam Alsahli indicate he supported key figures linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and attended a school in Saudi Arabia that has a decades-long link with Al-Qaida figures. Alsahli opened fire at […]

Tech companies join Muslim groups in support of historic bill to end travel ban

September 23, 2019 Aysha Khan

(Religion News) Ahead of a congressional hearing this week on the Trump administration’s travel ban, more than a dozen leading technology companies, including Twitter and Airbnb, have thrown their support behind a congressional bill to end the controversial measure. “As a platform […]