Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a warning to the Biden administration on Sunday, claiming a resurgence of the terrorist group ISIS-K could use the administration’s weak policies on the United States’s southern border to launch an attack.
The senator claimed that he had no knowledge of an imminent threat to the country, but that the existence of the terrorist group, which has its own human trafficking ring, means they could smuggle terrorists across the southern border.
“I think common sense tells you, if they run a trafficking network of people, they would most certainly use it to move operatives into the United States,” Rubio said on ABC’s This Week. “So I’m not claiming there’s an imminent threat to the U.S., but I am saying that [the] border situation and the existence of that network is a threat to the United States.”
The senator’s warning comes after the group claimed credit for an attack in Moscow, which killed at least 133 people and injured more than 150 others. The attack occurred in a suburb of Moscow at a concert hall. Russian authorities said they have arrested 11 suspects.
U.S. authorities have confirmed their belief that an affiliate of the Islamic State is responsible for the attack. That affiliate, ISIS-K, is based in Afghanistan.
“If they could do what they did in Moscow, in the United States, they would do it in a heartbeat,” Rubio said. “They want to do it. And it’s something we have to be very vigilant about when we have a border in which 9 million people have come across in the last three years.”
ISIS-K is the same group that killed 13 American service members in an airport explosion in Afghanistan in 2021 during President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. forces.
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Rubio is not the only person to express concern about the country’s national security in the hands of the Democratic Party. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said Republicans need to maintain control of the House with so many international conflicts happening.
“With the world on fire the way it is, we need to govern,” McCaul said on Sunday. “That is not just for Republicans, but in a bipartisan way, to get things done for the country. That’s in the national security interest of the United States.”
