Border czar Tom Homan revealed Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released during the Biden administration, who were among the “over 10 million people” who crossed into the United States illegally.

Homan’s warning comes after President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that the U.S. struck Iran, in which “a full payload” of bombs was dropped on three nuclear sites in the country. The border czar was asked about the possibility of sleeper cells occupied by Iranians in the U.S., to which he reiterated his national security concerns posed by the last administration’s handling of the border and how it greatly contrasts with Trump’s security of it.

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“So we’re not releasing people in this country, special interest aliens aren’t crossing this border undetected,” Homan stated on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “But under Joe Biden, we had over 10 million people cross that border. But my biggest concern, from day one, beyond the fentanyl, beyond the sex trafficking of women and children, were the two million known gotaways. Over two million people crossed that border, we don’t know who they are, where they came from, because they got away because border patrol is so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that 2 million people crossed the border and got away.”

Homan went on to state that Trump’s intelligence community has been working “since day one” to figure out where the illegal gotaways are within the U.S. He also expressed gratitude that new leadership at the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are in place, namedropping FBI Director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

The border czar also said that border patrol has found “prayer mats” and identifications from countries like Iran, Syria, and Turkey over the last four years.

“So we know that some terrorists have crossed that border, we’d be a fool to think zero crossed,” Homan said.

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Last month, zero illegal immigrants were released into the U.S., down by 62,000 from the same time last year. Additionally, Border Patrol agents encountered 8,725 illegal immigrants crossing the southwest border, a 93% decrease from May 2024, according to a CBP press release.

Noem has warned that encounters with Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members trying to enter the U.S. from Canada have increased. She cited the security at the nation’s southern border, adding that the numbers of “criminals” and drugs attempting to enter the country “remarkable.”