FBI Director confirms dangerous illegals are crossing our southern border

director Ray U we are we know that over the last three years millions of people um crossed the US border illegally and many have been released into the country um have members or people with ties to dangerous gangs like for example the prison gang Daga from Venezuela were they among the people that came into this country I don't know that I can speak to the specific gang but certainly we have had dangerous individuals uh enter the United states of a variety of sorts are we now seeing are we seeing crimes from people that entered the country over the last three years some of them with ties to gangs or other criminal organizations well I guess what I would say is this from an FBI perspective we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border and that includes everything from the drug trafficking the FBI alone seized enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people uh that's just on the fenel side an awful lot of the violent crime in the United States uh is at the hands of gangs who are themselves involved in the distribution of that fentanyl uh but we're also you're also seeing and tracking local law enforcement arresting and and for example The Assault on the police officers in New York all the reporting said they had ties to this gang in particular but there's no doubt that people that were criminals in their country of origin have crossed that border and are now in the US committing crimes correct um is there now a black market emerging to sell uh we've seen reports of a black market emerging selling social fake social security cards fake green cards have you seen reporting on that well certainly there is a uh on the dark net for example there is a significant Marketplace for different kinds of stolen identity what about in the street uh I think as well yeah okay and and um were there are smuggling networks all over the world that specialize in and moving people from all over the world um including from the Middle East Central Asia and so forth are we aware of any of these smuggling organizations are run by or um are conducted by people that have ties for example to Isis or other terrorist organizations so I want to be a little bit careful how far I can go in Open Session but there uh you know there is a particular Network um that has uh where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling Network have Isis ties uh that we're very concerned about uh and that we've been spending enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating um uh exactly what that network is up to uh is something that's again the subject of our current investigation but there is a network we concerned about that has facilitators involved in it that have ties to Isis and other terrorist organizations correct