The Department of Homeland Security has identified more than 400 migrants who came to the US via a human smuggling network that may have some connection with ISIS, prompting an additional review of those individuals, according to two US officials.
The purpose of the network was to smuggle people, not bring in terrorists, one of the officials said. But it is the same network that brought eight Tajik nationals, who were arrested earlier this month after officials discovered that they had some specific and troubling connections to the terror group. There was specific “derogatory information” linking those individuals to ISIS, the official said.
Two US officials also said that it spurred national security officials to ensure that immigration and intelligence authorities were appropriately monitoring anyone traveling from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. “I think what did last summer was suggest Central Asians are potentially a population of concern, given what we know about the global ISIS network right now,” a senior US official previously told CNN.
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