As the war heats up between the US and Iran, military-aged men from the Middle East keep pushing to smuggle their way into America. Former President Joe Biden’s rickety porch screen door along the Mexican border may no longer be swinging open, but the threat remains very real.
A Syrian national has been arrested and charged with leading an international human smuggling network operating out of Mexico City that charges illegal aliens $4,500 each to travel through South America and Mexico and into the US. The ring specializes in dealing with an Arabic clientele, otherwise known as “Special Interest Aliens,” Homeland Security officials say.
“An SIA is a noncitizen who, based ‘on an analysis of travel patterns,’ is ‘known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism’ who ‘potentially poses a national security risk to the United States or US interests,’ the US Department of Homeland Security explains,” Bethany Blankley at The Center Square reports.
“Adeeb Maklad Adeeb was the leader of an international criminal network responsible for smuggling hundreds of illegal aliens into the United States through El Paso, Texas from predominantly Arabic-speaking countries,” Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge in El Paso Taekuk Cho said in a statement.
Yesterday’s Migrant Is Today’s Terrorist?
The March 12 mass shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, by a man previously convicted of supporting ISIS and the car-ramming attack on a synagogue in Michigan that same day by a Lebanese native underscore the glaring danger facing the American interior today. Scores of potentially hostile foreign-aligned males are roaming free in the US as war rages in the Middle East. The threat only gets worse when dealing with those who sneak over the border illegally, and thus are totally unknown to, much less vetted by, authorities.
The disastrous immigration policies of the Biden administration, combined with a hot war in the Middle East, have potentially placed American citizens in the line of fire in their own neighborhoods.
In one weekend in June 2025, with Trump back in the White House, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 11 Iranian nationals residing in the country illegally. Does this sound like a worrisome situation to you?
From a Homeland Security news release:
- “On June 22, ICE Atlanta arrested Ribvar Karimi in Locust, Alabama. Karimi reportedly served as an Iranian Army sniper from 2018 to 2021 and at the time of his arrest, in his possession, he had an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card.”
- “On June 22, in St. Paul, Minnesota, ICE arrested Mehran Makari Saheli, a 56-year-old Iranian national. He was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in Minneapolis, where he was sentenced to 15 months in prison. He is a former member of off the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with admitted connections to Hezbollah.”
- “On June 22, in Tempe – a Phoenix, Arizona suburb – On June 22, in Tempe – a Phoenix, Arizona suburb – ICE agents arrested Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, an Iranian citizen with a final order of removal charged with being an alien in possession of a firearm…. At the same residence, officials arrested Linet Vartannivartanians, a United States citizen, for threatening a law enforcement officer. She threatened to open fire on ICE officials if they entered her home, then said she would go outside and ‘shoot ICE officers in the head.’”
“[M]ore than 2,500 [illegal aliens] from Iran have been apprehended at the US-Mexico border since 2021,” NewsNation reported in June 2025.
And then there’s this.
“More than 700 Iranian nationals who illegally entered the US were released into the country by the Biden administration,” The Center Square’s Blankley reported at the same time.
This is madness.
“In 2021, 12 Iranian illegal border crossers were released into the US; in 2022, 40 were released into the US; in 2023, 229 were released into the US; in 2024, 448 were released into the US, according to data” provided by a Border Patrol agent to The Center Square.
From the Border to Your Hometown
The terrifying fact remains that the American people have no way of knowing how many illegal aliens live among them today, or where they come from. In October 2025, the pro-illegal Migration Policy Institute released a “Fact Sheet” on “unauthorized immigrants” in the US.
While it continues to make the woefully out-of-date estimate that there were 13.7 million illegal aliens in America as of mid-2023 (the number is almost certainly at least double that, and quite possibly significantly higher), its breakdown of demographics is reason for alarm.
“Unauthorized immigrants represented 26 percent of the total US foreign-born population,” MPI states. “Mexicans accounted for 40 percent of all unauthorized immigrants – down significantly from their 62 percent share in 2010.”
In other words, it’s not just the folks next door anymore. People from all over the world are breaking into the United States. Sixty percent of all illegal aliens in the US today come from beyond Mexico, a leading pro-migrant source states.
How many are from the Middle East? We don’t know. Add them to the substantial number granted legal entry.
“In 2022, 1.7 million Middle Eastern or North African immigrants lived in the United States. These immigrants came from the countries between Morocco in the west to Iran in the east, including the entire Arabian Peninsula,” the pro-migration American Immigration Council reported in 2024.
How concerned should we be?
“They have sleeper cells here. Quite frankly, they have for decades…. They are just waiting for the right moment,” ex-CIA Counterterrorism Center officer and NewsNation national security contributor Tracy Walder told the outlet last summer.
“Recruitment is typically done through networks, religious institutions or online platforms like social media. Recruiters typically appeal to emotions, such as alienation, injustice or religious duty,” NewsNation details.
They are here. We let them in.
