National security leaders are growing increasingly concerned about Iranians with ties to the Revolutionary Guard attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada and harm Americans as the war overseas continues.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin disclosed this week that federal immigration authorities from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Canadian police had begun to encounter Iranian nationals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally along the Northern border, with the number of encounters increasing day by day. Mullin did not provide additional details.“Because of the amount of pressure President Trump has put on Iran with the peace through strength, is we’ve seen an unusual amount of Iranian nationals trying to sneak in through our northern, not southern, border because President Trump’s policies have closed the southern border,” Mullin told Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. “Our Northern border, we’ve seen arrests go up daily on Iranian nationals.”
Asked if those arriving from Iran were fleeing violence or affiliated with the Guard, Mullin said “most” of the individuals had ties “directly to the IRGC.” The Guard is the militant arm of the Iranian regime and is known for supporting terrorism across the Middle East.“It’s worrisome because the amount of … people that have direct ties to the IRGC,” Mullin added. “The IRGC is not the regular army of Iran. The IRGC is the true believers of this radical regime.”Mullin’s comment was the first time the Trump administration pointed to evidence that the national security threat to the U.S. was growing as the war closed out its fourth month.
