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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) apprehended 134 criminal aliens in Maverick County on Thursday.

“The group included 32 unaccompanied children/minors & 7 special interest immigrants from Iran & Angola,” DPS spokesperson Chris Olivarez revealed in a tweet.

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According to Fox News, “special interest immigrants” are criminal aliens “who potentially pose a national security risk to the U.S.”

“The designation means that the travel and behavior patterns of such individuals could indicate a possible nexus to nefarious activity, including terrorism,” Fox News notes.

The latest apprehension comes weeks after DPS caught dozens of illegal aliens from countries linked to terrorism. Some of them reportedly hailed from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and India.

“It is this type of activity, these attempted illegal crossings between the ports of entry by people coming from areas that are hot spots for terrorist activity that clearly highlight the concerns of Governor Abbott and the state of Texas,” DPS Director Steven McCraw said at the time.

“These are not illegal immigrants seeking asylum — these are people trying to cross into the United States undetected who may also be trying to do us harm,” he added.

The latest apprehension also comes weeks after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an annual threat assessment warning about illegal aliens with terrorist ties.

“Over the next year, we expect some individuals with terrorism ties and some criminal actors will continue their efforts to exploit migration flows and the complex border security environment to enter the United States,” the assessment reads.

“Individuals with potential terrorism connections continue to attempt to enter the Homeland at both the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders and also through the immigration system,” it continues.

The assessment further noted that through July of fiscal year 2024, a whopping 422 criminal aliens on the federal Terrorist Screening Data Set were apprehended at the border.

The list reportedly includes people who “may be directly engaged in or supporting terrorist activities as well as known associates of watchlisted individuals, such as family members.”

All this also comes after the release last month of a DHS Inspector General report that revealed migrants are being allowed into the country without any identification, thus making it impossible to determine whether they’re on the terror watch list.

“[N]either CBP nor ICE could determine how many of the millions of noncitizens seeking entry in the United States each year entered without identification and whose self-reported biographic information was accepted,” the report reads.

“[N]either CBP nor ICE conducted a comprehensive risk assessment for these noncitizens to assess the level of risk these individuals present and developed corresponding mitigation measures,” it continues.

BizPac Review previously reported about how criminal aliens from terror-linked Tajikistan have been showing up at the southern U.S. border left and right, according to reports.

Indeed, the number of illegal aliens from Tajikistan that have arrived at the border has “skyrocketed” ever since President Joe Biden, a rabid Democrat, assumed office in early 2021, according to the New York Post.

This is a major problem because Tajikistan is “a hotbed of ISIS recruitment.” Yet over 1,500 Tajiks made it across the border between October 2020 and May of 2024 — 500 this year alone.

Now contrast this with past data: “Over the previous 14 years there were just 26 Tajik nationals crossing the border,” the Post notes.

What’s not clear is how many of the Tajiks who made it across the border were subsequently released into the U.S. interior, but it’s known that most aliens claim asylum and then wait for a hearing.

Dovetailing back to Tajikistan, it borders Afghanistan and has become a hotbed of Islamic terror from both ISIS and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), an extreme offshoot.

Javed Ali, a former counterterrorism official who reportedly now teaches at the University of Michigan, told the Post that the influx of Tajik nationals could possibly be part of an ISIS operation “seeding people into the United States” in preparation for an attack.

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