The government has identified 18,000 known or suspected terrorists who reached the United States during the Biden administration, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center told Congress on Thursday.
“That’s just what we know of,” NCTC Director Joe Kent told the House Homeland Security Committee.
He called them a “persistent threat” to the U.S.
“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 said.
Known or suspected terrorists, or KSTs as they are called in D.C.-speak, are those whom the government has linked directly to terrorist activities or to associates of terrorists.
Mr. Kent said that under normal immigration, KSTs would have been blocked.
“Yet the Biden administration … let them into the country and, in many cases, facilitated their entry,” he said.
