The Ominous Threat of a Terrorist Attack Waiting to Happen on US Soil

 How much of a terrorist threat does the porous US/Mexico border pose to the average American citizen today? For those able to connect the dots, the answer is readily available.

The Border Patrol reported 172 encounters last fiscal year of people whose names appeared on a list of known or suspected terrorists and their associates.

In January alone, Border Patrol "Encountered" 50 more people on terror watch lists.

This may seem to pose a conundrum: If known terrorists are entering the US, why have we not witnessed another spectacular terrorist attack on American soil? This question becomes more intriguing when one realizes that people with terror links entering the US is a phenomenon that goes many years back - well before Joe Biden took office.

Yet although the number of terrorist-affiliated people entering the US has also exponentially risen, we have not seen a commensurate rise in terrorist attacks on US soil from them.

Another reason why the many terrorists already ensconced in the US have not yet struck should be obvious: striking now, under the last vestiges of the Biden administration, which has left the border wide open, would be counterproductive; it would bring much more criticism and thus concrete moves to quickly seal the border, which would only work against the terrorists, who are no doubt still actively exploiting it.

In short, the fact that no major terror attack has taken place since the Mexico border was flung wide open is almost more ominous than if something minor had happened. 

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