The surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border has yielded “very dangerous threats” for the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified on March 11.
While being questioned by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Wray confirmed that a variety of “dangerous individuals” had entered the United States via the U.S.–Mexico border.
When asked by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the committee’s vice chair, if those individuals were committing crimes, the director elaborated.
“From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border,” including the cross-border trafficking of drugs such as fentanyl, he said. “And an awful lot of the violent crime in the United States is at the hands of gangs who are themselves involved in the distribution of that fentanyl.”…