Federal legislation enforcement officers have arrested a person from Uzbekistan who’s an alleged member of the ISIS terrorist group and has been residing in the USA for the previous two years whereas making use of for asylum.
NBC Information reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lately arrested 33-year-old Zhovokhir Atoev in Baltimore.
In line with stories, Atoev crossed the border into Arizona in February 2022, was detained by Border Patrol and claimed to be an asylum seeker.
Officers claimed they discovered no “derogatory data” about him in order that they launched him to the US with a courtroom date.
“Subsequently, in Might 2023, Uzbekistan issued a global discover that Attayev was needed in his residence nation for his alleged hyperlinks to ISIS,” the report mentioned. “However it wasn’t till March 2024, almost a 12 months later, when the U.S. authorities was reviewing Atoev’s software for asylum, that officers found the notification from Uzbekistan and linked it to the particular person residing in Maryland.”
He was arrested by ICE two weeks in the past and is now in jail awaiting trial in immigration courtroom the place the federal government will argue he must be locked as much as study extra about his alleged ties to terrorism.
Quite a few federal legislation enforcement officers informed the publication that the case is an ideal instance of how harmful the U.S. immigration and asylum system is as a result of it takes so lengthy for authorities to trace down individuals who have already entered the U.S. — normally illegally.
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ICE lately arrested one other terrorist who entered the USA illegally and was shifting freely across the nation.
Mohammad Kharwin, 48, who entered the USA illegally by the southern border, “is a member of Hezb-e-Islami, or HIG, a political and paramilitary group designated as a terrorist group by the USA,” NBC Information reported final month. He roamed the US for a full 12 months earlier than lastly being arrested by ICE.
In line with US officers, the Islamic terrorist group is accountable for the killing of a number of US troopers in Afghanistan from 2013 to 2015. The Director of Nationwide Intelligence mentioned that Hezb-e-Islami, or “Get together of Islam,” is “a virulently anti-Western rebel group whose mission is to switch the Western-backed Afghan authorities with an Islamic state primarily based on Sharia.”
