Terrorist Coverup Story | American Center for Law and Justice

HERE'S WHY

In 2021, two Yemeni nationals, both on the FBI Terrorism Watchlist, were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at two separate times as they attempted to cross our southern border.

CBP officials posted a press release detailing the capture, but Biden Administration officials shut them down, demanding the press release be removed, undermining our border agents who put their lives on the line.

YOU WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT IT

These arrests exposed the incompetence and inaction of Biden’s failed immigration policies that created this crisis and left America exposed and vulnerable to attack. After hearing about the scrubbed press release, the ACLJ filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request against FOUR Biden agencies demanding answers. Now we’ve received a flood of records from DHS, which have only confirmed our suspicions – the Biden Administration didn’t want you to know about the arrests.

TIMELINE OF A COVER UP

JAN. 29, 2021 1:00AM

First Yemeni terrorist apprehended

33-year-old illegal Yemeni immi- grant on FBI’s Terrorism Watchlist and No-Fy list apprehended by border patrol three miles west of the Calexico Port of Entry just after 1:00 AM.

MAR. 30, 2021 MIDNIGHT

Second Yemeni terrorist apprehended

26-year-old illegal Yemeni immigrant on FBI’s Terrorism Watchlist and No-Fly list apprehended by border patrol two miles west of the Calexico Port of Entry just before midnight.

APR. 5, 2021

Press Release issued on Terrorists Captured

Press release on capture of Yemeni terrorists released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on their website.

APR. 5. 2021 3:21PM

CBP COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS HOW ALERT GOT RELEASED

First email was sent from CBP Deputy Assistant Commissioner to DHS’ Public Affairs Assistant Secretary Marsha Espinosa inquiring “how” the alert “got released without a heads-up.”

APR. 5, 2021 8:54PM

cbp commissioner: terrorist alert “should not have gone out.”

CBP Deputy Assistant Commissioner sends email to Espinosa saying, “The CBP release should not have gone out. I suggest we get back in our lane and refer media inquiries to the FBI, which owns the watchlist. It is not a perfect solution but it stops us from digging a deeper hole.”

APR. 5, 2021 10:43PM

terror alert taken down

CBP Deputy Assistant Commissioner sends email to Espinosa saying, “I have asked to have the release pulled off the newsroom.”

APR. 6, 2021 3:00 AM

CBP Commissioner: “release should not have been posted.”

CBP Deputy Assistant Commissioner emails Espinosa saying, “I have made it abundantly clear the release should not have been posted/distributed.”

DECEMBER 2021

ACLJ SUBMITS FOIA REQUEST

Our critical Freedom of Information Act request stated, “FOIA Request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) For Recordings Regarding Border-Related Human Trafficking and Exploitation of Women and Children, the Cancelation of Postponement of Operation Talon, and taking down CBP’s Press Release on Arrest of Persons on the FBI’s Terrorism Watchlist.”

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

ACLJ SUES DHS, CBP & ICE

The ACLJ filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement for failing to comply with our Freedom of Information Act request. None of the letters submitted by the agencies contained the required pieces of information, and the 20 business day deadline to file responses had passed.

MARCH 20, 2023

BIDEN COVER-UP EXPOSED

Through our lawsuit, the ACLJ obtained critical records showing that senior officials, including someone who is now a “principal advisor” to Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, worked through the night to get the press release on the capture of two Yemini terrorists at the U.S. southern border scrubbed, coordinating efforts with unknown senior FBI and Customs and Border Protection officials.

SECRETS EXPOSED

DEC. 17, 2021

ACLJ’S FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

ACLJ V. DHS, CBP & ICE

MARCH 9, 2023

CBP’S REDACTED RESPONSE

A POLICY OF NO POLICY

Not only has Biden ignored the disaster at the border – passing the buck to Vice President Harris, a disastrous move in itself – but Biden’s policy of no policy has only increased the threats to Americans. As he promised, Biden stopped the construction of Trump’s border wall, leaving massive gaps. He pushed to end Title 42, the pandemic policy that prevented millions of undocumented migrants from entering. And most recently, the Biden Administration cut the critical “aerostats” security program that used remote blimps to help CBP agents spot bad guys before they could cross the border.

America is a diverse nation of immigrants.Most of us are here today because an immigrant once bravely came in search of a better life.Immigrants deserve a secure border too. We must protect them as well.That’s why the ACLJ is here, fighting for a secure border, a reformed immigration system, and assistance for our overwhelmed border patrol.