No. Though federal officials in 2024 acknowledged that immigrants with possible ties to ISIS had been arrested in the U.S. — and that others had entered the country through an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network — those links were not known at the time of the individuals’ admission. Customs and Border Patrol’s initial vetting of the arrivals did not raise any red flags, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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