KEN CUCCINELLI: Biden opened our border to Iranian terrorism threats
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Investigation reveals Iranian border crossings surged twentyfivefold under Biden, with 729 released into U.S. amid fears of embedded sleeper cells and attacks.
Ken Cuccinelli is the former Virginia attorney general and former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Secure frontiers and rigorous vetting under the Trump administration ensured that potential operatives couldn’t infiltrate U.S. defenses easily. Encounters with Iranians at the U.S. southern border averaged less than 20 annually from 2000 to 2019. The homeland remained insulated from the threat of terrorism from Iran.
Now, in March 2026, as U.S. and Israeli forces destroy Iran’s nuclear sites and tyrannical leadership in Operation Epic Fury — killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparking regional responses — the calculus has shifted perilously. Iran has fired missiles on U.S. outposts in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and beyond.
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