Homeland Security chief says there are no credible threats ahead of 9/11 anniversary

[SouthBayDem]

Source: CBS

As the effort to resettle those who escaped Afghanistan during the U.S. military withdrawal, there are now more than 46,000 Afghan refugees in the United States, according to law enforcement sources. More than a dozen of them have shown up on terror watch lists, the sources said.

But Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the U.S. has protocols to remove anyone brought to the country who later turns out to be a threat.

"We screen and vet individuals before they board a plane to the United States," Mayorkas told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell in an exclusive interview. "An individual who does not satisfy our screening and vetting protocols is not admitted to the United States. And if in fact, we learn information subsequently, we place those individuals in removal proceedings so that they are set to leave the United States as swiftly as possible."

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The secretary told CBS News that the Department of Homeland Security is doing "everything possible" to make sure prisoners released by the Taliban — including members of ISIS and al Qaeda — don't get into the United States.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alejandro-mayorkas-interview-9-11-threat-homeland-security/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Can't be, every Trumper in my family swears the Taliban are going invade...or something

it will be terrible and they are very concerned.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. As long as the GOP exists in its current state, we do have many credible threats.

KY............

[twodogsbarking]

3. What I got from the interview.

He said that DHS has seen a shift, where once they may have been more concerned about a foreign terrorist entering the U.S., "now what we consider the most serious terrorism-related threat on our homeland, which is the domestic violent extremist."