In a damning revelation that confirms what conservatives have long warned, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official revealed that more than 1,500 Iranian nationals were apprehended after illegally crossing the southern border under the Biden administration — and shockingly, nearly half of them were released into the United States.
The report, shared with Fox News on June 22, comes at a particularly dangerous moment. Just a day earlier, a precision U.S.-led strike devastated three Iranian nuclear sites, escalating fears that Iranian sleeper cells could be activated inside the U.S. Homeland security hawks are sounding the alarm — and rightly so.
According to the anonymous CBP source, 1,504 Iranian nationals were arrested between 2021 and 2025, with arrests peaking in 2024 at 448. Of those, a jaw-dropping 729 were *released* into the country — under the Biden administration’s catastrophic catch-and-release policies.
Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Wecker didn’t mince words when speaking to Fox News Digital: “We don’t know where those thousand Iranians are — and who knows how many others crossed undetected.” Wecker laid the blame squarely where it belongs: “This is gross negligence on the part of the Biden administration.”
He went further, warning that American intelligence agencies are now in a dangerous game of catch-up, all because Biden opened the floodgates. “We missed an opportunity to gather intel by interviewing and vetting them. Instead, we just let them go.”
Former Trump Border Czar Tom Homan also weighed in, delivering a stark warning on *Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo*. “Under Joe Biden, over 10 million people have crossed that border,” he said, “but what keeps me up at night isn’t just the drugs or child trafficking. It’s the 2 million *gotaways* — the ones we never caught. We don’t know who they are, or where they are.”
Even more chilling, Homan confirmed that border agents have discovered *prayer mats* and Iranian identification documents in the brush near illegal crossing points over the last four years. “We’d be fools to believe that no terrorists have crossed our border,” he said.
This is not speculation or fear-mongering — it’s reality. The Biden administration’s reckless border policies have created a national security nightmare, and now, as tensions in the Middle East escalate, America may be sitting on a ticking time bomb.
Meanwhile, President Trump, who has led with strength and resolve, posted a message of peace on Truth Social Monday evening, revealing that a ceasefire — dubbed *“THE 12 DAY WAR”* — between Israel and Iran is imminent. “God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD!” Trump wrote.
But as Trump works to stabilize the globe, Biden’s legacy at home is one of chaos, weakness, and willful neglect. How many more must cross — and how many more threats must we face — before America wakes up to the consequences of open borders?
