Speaking to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) asked if agents were being pulled from border cases to work other tasks.
On October 7, 2023, the fundamentalist Islamist organization Hamas committed an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, October 7, 2023, killing over 1,400 Israelis.
According to a memo from the San Diego Field Office Intelligence Division of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), terrorist organizations may enter the United States from the southern border.