Why Did Illegal Immigrant Terrorists Receive Social Security Numbers?

Honest reporters have been telling us for years that the Biden administration was flying planeloads of illegal immigrants into American cities in the middle of the night. Among those illegal immigrants were “known or suspected terrorists.” Now, we are being told that illegal immigrants were given “Social Security numbers and taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.” 

We know about the Social Security numbers and welfare benefits meant for U.S. citizen because of the audit being done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Bethany Blankley reported on the situation in her article published at The Daily Signal. 

DOGE posted it latest findings of alleged government waste, fraud, and abuse, fully funded by Congress, in a post on X.

“Under the Biden administration, it was routine for Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with no legal status and minimal screening,” DOGE said. It’s referring to the more than 14 million illegal border crossers reported under the Biden administration, including more than 2 million who evaded detection, The Center Square first reported.

They included millions flown to the U.S. on international flights paid for by taxpayers through parole programs created by the administration that judges ruled were illegal in lawsuits filed by states. Among them are more than 1 million from Venezuela, including members of the violent terrorist organization Tren de Aragua [TdA], who, under the Biden administration, had expanded into at least 22 states where crimes were reported, The Center Square exclusively reported.

Under the Biden administration, Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers released inadmissible illegal foreign nationals into the U.S. instead of processing them for removal. Among them were “a subset of 6.3K individuals paroled into the United States since 2023 on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist or with criminal records,” DOGE said.

It's referring to the Terrorist Screening Dataset, the federal government’s database that contains sensitive information on terrorist identities. The database originated as a consolidated terrorist watchlist to hold information on known or suspected terrorists. Over the past decade, it evolved “to include additional individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watchlisted individuals,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection has explained.

Under the Trump administration, “These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” DOGE said, referring to more than a dozen parole programs House Republicans identified as illegal.

“Despite having no other legal status, paroled aliens” under the Biden administration were given work authorization and received Social Security numbers. Of the 6,300 paroled illegal foreign nationals with criminal or terrorist records, all given Social Security numbers, many received federal welfare benefits, DOGE said.

Of them, 905 received a combined $276,000 in Medicaid funds, including four on the terrorist watchlist; 41 collected a combined $42,000 in Unemployment Insurance; 22 received a combined $280,000 in federal student loans; 409 received a net combined total of $751,000 in 2024 tax refunds; “several (final number TBD) received SNAP (food stamp) benefits,” DOGE said. More information is expected….

Under the Biden administration, the greatest number of known and suspected terrorists were apprehended in U.S. history of 1,903, The Center Square exclusively reported. The majority, 64%, totaling 1,216, were apprehended at the northern border coming from Canada between fiscal years 2021-2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

A record 687 number were reported at the southwest border over the same time period, The Center Square reported….