Cristy Li

ISIS Jihadists At Large Infiltrate U.S. –Image: Adina Kutnicki

(ABC7 Los Angeles) The United States should be wary of the potential for ISIS operatives to infiltrate the flow of refugees into the West said Gen. John Allen, (USMC Ret) Obama’s ‘Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS.’

“I think we should watch it. We should be conscious of the potential that ‘Daesh’ (ISIS) may attempt to embed agents within that population,” Gen. Allen said in an interview with Martha Raddatz, ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent — Gen Allen added that he’s confident that the FBI and DHS will work, “very, very hard to prevent them from getting into the country.”

According to a September 2005 study by Janice Kephart, of 94 foreign-born terrorists who operated in the U.S. before and post-9/11:

• About 2/3 had committed immigration fraud–many of them multiple acts of immigration violations;
• In 17 instances terrorists claimed to lack the proper immigration documents and applied for political asylum;
• Fraud was used not only to gain entry into the U.S. but to remain (embedded) in the country.
  

The Obama Administration announced this week that it wants to increase the number of Syrian Refugees it allows into the United States from 1,500 so far this year to roughly 10,000 in FY 2016 which begins next month.