The worst threat is that authorities do not know who came into the country during the last four years, said the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
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In a mind-blowing development, 18,000 known or suspected terrorists entered the U.S. during the deluge of migrants who walked in unstopped during the Biden Administration, senior officials told Congress on Thursday.
The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, said they pose a “persistent” threat inside the country, according to a story published by The Washington Times.
“The No. 1 threat that we have right now in my view is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders,” Mr. Kent told the House Homeland Security Committee as part of a hearing on worldwide threats.
Kent said that the figure of 18,000 consist solely of the ones his organization has been able to recognize so far. He suggested that others could be lying in wait, especially those who sneaked across the border.
The irony, Kent said, is that they would have been blocked under normal immigration measures. “Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry,” he said.
.@NCTCKent just dropped a shocking statistic:
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) December 11, 2025
The Biden Administration allowed 18,000 individuals with ties to known and suspected terrorists to enter our country. A complete national security failure. pic.twitter.com/3xjXWEHJRe
He pointed to Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan migrant charged in the shooting attack near the White House last month that killed one National Guard soldier and critically wounded another. The man was let into the U.S. as part of President Biden’s airlift of Afghans in 2021 after years of assisting the U.S. war effort.
Kent said Mr. Lakanwal was approved to assist the U.S. in Afghanistan but never underwent the screening that should have taken place before he reached American soil.
“The Biden administration essentially used his tactical-level vetting as a ruse to bring him here,” Kent said.
Kent said those under suspicion are called “Known or suspected terrorists,” or KSTs as they are called in Washington-speak. They have been linked either directly to terrorist activities or deemed associates of those who are terrorists.
Some 2,000 of the 18,000 known or suspected terrorists his agency has identified arrived as part of the Afghan airlift operations.
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