Various outlets have reported that an Afghan migrant on the terrorist watchlist due to suspected ties to a foreign terrorist organization was nonetheless released - not once but twice.
The alien is identified as Mohammad Kharwin, a 48-year-old Afghan national apprehended by Border Patrol on March 10, 2023, after he allegedly entered the United States illegally near San Ysidro, Calif. Apparently, agents had concerns about Kharwin "Because one piece of information matched a person on the" terrorist watchlist.
It does not seem that detaining illegal Afghan migrants of concern is the current policy of the Biden administration, so instead Kharwin was released on an "Alternative to detention" without ICE ever being informed.
ICE only found out about Kharwin in February, 11 months after he was released, when the FBI contacted the agency to inform it that Kharwin is a suspected member of Hezb-e-Islami, which the U.S. Director of National Intelligence describes as a "Virulently anti-Western insurgent group".
Specifically, the IJ set a $12,000 bond in Kharwin's case, which I can tell you from my experience as an IJ is a pretty high amount, but somehow Kharwin was able to post it and be released again.
The New York Post explains that "ICE prosecutors failed to inform the [IJ] handling Kharwin's detention proceedings about his suspected ties to HIG because the information purportedly linking him to the terror group was classified".
The Kharwin case reveals the administration isn't using a key tool Congress gave it to prevent terrorist incursions into the United States - immigration detention.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Federal-Government-Releases-Suspected-Afghan-Terrorist-Twice
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