Jordanian with terror ties busted after slipping into U.S. from Canada

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A Jordanian migrant with terrorist ties who tried slipping into the U.S. over the Canadian border has now been booted back to the Middle East.

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The incident is just the latest in a troubling trend of terror-tied migrants sneaking into the U.S. from Canada.

According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a whopping 87% of the 410 terror suspects stopped from entering the U.S. over the past year came from Canada.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday they arrested terror-connected Mohammad Hasan Abdellatif Albana, 41, on the northern border in Lynden, Washington — about 30 minutes southwest of Abbotsford, B.C.

Officials said he was arrested earlier this month for attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. He was kicked out of the U.S. and put on a plane back to Jordan on Nov. 15.

“Our officers perform these removals dutifully as a part of a federal law enforcement effort to protect Pacific Northwest Communities,” ICE Seattle director Drew H. Bostock said, adding they are “committed to the removal of non-citizens who pose a risk to the national security of the U.S.”

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Terror-linked migrants have been a worry on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian frontier. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has issued thinly veiled threats about what’s perceived as lax immigration controls in Canada.

While the number sneaking into the U.S. from Canada has become a hot-button issue, the southern border also continues to be a problem.

According to the New York Post, Border agents busted Palestinian Omar Shehada, 35, at the New Mexico border in August. He is on the terror watchlist for using “explosives/arms” for an unnamed terror group.

In San Diego, agents nabbed three Palestinian migrants and another from Turkey. The quartet were determined to be terrorism suspects associated with an unnamed terrorist organization.

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Earlier this year, eight Tajik nationals were arrested in a multi-state investigation. The Post said the group had been inadvertently released.

Sources claimed the suspected ISIS-linked group was planning to attack LGBTQ people in Philadelphia.

In September, student visa holder Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was arrested in Ormstown, Que. as he tried to enter the U.S. illegally.

Authorities said that Khan — a Pakistani national — was intent on travelling to New York City where he allegedly planned to use automatic and semi-automatic weapons to slaughter Jews at a community centre in Brooklyn. Investigators said the massacre was in support of ISIS.

The feds say Khan came to Canada in June 2023 on a student visa. He faces terrorism charges in Canada and the U.S.

Minister of Immigration Marc Miller told reporters: “Obviously there are criminal charges pending. As politicians, as elected officials, in order to make sure the judicial process is not compromised … it’s very important that we don’t comment.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

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