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#new A boat filled with illegal migrants from Iran & Russia was caught by the US Coast Guard in Florida trying to enter the country from the Bahamas#iran The interception of migrants from these two countries has officials warning of the risk of sleeper cells that were allowed into the country during the Biden Administration. #florida It happened in Pinellas County, Florida. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said that the U.S. Coast Guard stopped the vessel, describing the situation as a genuine national security threat rather than speculation.Fast Facts: 🔺️U.S. officials have repeatedly flagged risks from Iranian-linked threats. 🔺️Between 2021 and 2024 (Biden administration) CBP arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals at the southern border, with 729 released into the United States.🔺️From October 2021 to October 2023, Border Patrol caught more than 70,000 Special Interest Aliens trying to cross between ports of entry. (SIA are migrants from countries with high levels of t*rrorist activities, or connections to t*rrorists)🔺️Earlier leaked CBP data for the first two years showed thousands of SIA specifically from high-risk spots like Afghanistan (over 6,000), Egypt (over 3,000), and Pakistan, among others.#Egypt 🔺️DHS has warned that multiple recent homeland t*rrorist attacks were motivated by anti-Semitic or anti-Israel sentiment, and the Israel-Iran conflict could spur additional t*rrorist attacks by sleeper cells already in the U.S.🔺️Conservatives, including Senate Intelligence Committee members like Sen. Tom Cotton, have hammered the Biden administration's policies for releasing hundreds of Iranian nationals into American communities, calling it reckless and a direct invitation to danger.Republicans argue that Biden and the Democrats allowed sleeper cells into the country. They point to t*rror watchlist encounters at the border.#ChristinaAguayoNews