Federal agents have arrested eight people in several U.S. cities with alleged ties to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in recent days.
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a joint statement saying, “Over the last few days, ICE agents arrested several non-citizens pursuant to immigration authorities.”
“The actions were carried out in close coordination with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The individuals arrested are detained in ICE custody pending removal proceedings…The FBI and DHS will continue working around the clock with our partners to identify, investigate, and disrupt potential threats to national security,” it continued.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the migrants are from the central Asian nation of Tajikistan and illegally crossed the southern border last year, but were allowed to remain in the country.
Authorities monitoring their activities discovered information linking them to the terror group.
They were detained in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia and face immigration charges.
Officials say there was no active terror plot and there’s not enough evidence to charge them with terrorism.
The apprehensions were first reported by the New York Post saying the investigation featured a wiretap that revealed one of the suspects was talking about bombs.
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