A Colombian illegal alien who attempted to join ISIS after being released into the country by the Biden administration has been captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), The Daily Wire can exclusively reveal.
ICE says that the 35-year-old illegal alien from Colombia entered the United States in Lukeville, Arizona on July 14, 2024. He was then apprehended by Customs and Border Protection, who found he did not have valid documentation. He was entered into removal proceedings, but was later released into the interior of the United States by the Biden administration.
Then he tried to join ISIS.
ICE learned from the Department of Justice in May that the Colombian illegal alien was in communication with a social media account that claimed to arrange travel and combat training for those who want to join the Islamic terror organization. The social media account asked the illegal alien to record and send videos of himself pledging allegiance to ISIS.
He was arrested on May 22, 2025 in a joint effort between ICE and the FBI in the Boston area during Operation Patriot, a wider operation in the area that resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegal aliens in the region.
“This Colombian alien entered the country illegally and was released under the Biden administration. He went on to engage with an ISIS recruiter,” an ICE spokesman told The Daily Wire. “If we’re going to make America safe again, we need to ensure those coming to this country do so legally, and are properly processed, which for four years was not the case.”
News of the Colombian’s arrest comes just after ICE arrested a suspected member of Al Qaeda late last month in Philadelphia. That man, a Tajikistan-born Russian national, entered the United States by way of California in 2023 and was similarly paroled into the interior of the country under the Biden administration despite not having an immigrant visa.
ICE and the FBI worked together to arrest the man after Tajikistan warned that the illegal alien is a fugitive thought to have ties to a criminal organization. The Russian national is now in ICE custody, pending his removal from the United States.
Just days before the arrests became public, a different illegal alien, this one an Egyptian national, injured several people in a firebombing terrorist attack against a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado.
The Biden administration not only witnessed a drastic surge in the number of terror suspects who attempted to enter the United States, but also attempted to cover up the surge, one former Border Patrol Chief charged last year.
“In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in significant interest aliens. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism,” Former Chief Patrol Officer Aaron Heitke said during a hearing with the Homeland Security Committee in September. “Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year. Once word was out the border was far easier to cross San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022 well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year.”
The Biden administration, Heitke said, barred him from publicly discussing the drastic increase.
“At the time I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests,” he said, adding that the administration “was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”
Some terror suspects were actually let into the country. The Biden administration even paroled hundreds of potential terrorists into the interior of the United States, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard explained in April.
“Just the other day, we found 700 alien terrorists who have ties to MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and the Sinaloa cartel,” Gabbard revealed during a cabinet meeting in the White House. She added that the National Counterterrorism Center “identified almost 600 individuals with ties to other terrorists who came through our border illegally, claimed asylum, and under the Biden administration were paroled here within our borders.”