Hospitals could become “soft targets” for Iran’s terrorist attacks, warn experts

729 Following the Iranian National Report I illegally entered the US And experts released to the country by the Biden administration have warned that sanctuary jurisdictions with policies that block ice and federal immigration enforcement could be the most vulnerable targets of Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks seeking retaliation for a US strike over the weekend.

Number of Iranians released to the country by Border Patrol agents under the former president Joe Bidens The government has increased consecutively every year. In total, the Border Patrol arrested 1,504 Iranian citizens from 2021 to 2024, and of the 1,504 individuals arrested, 729 have been released to the United States.

Hours after Trump addressed the nation on a US military attack on Iran’s nuclear site, DHS released a new memo warning about the “increasing threat environment in the United States.”

The bulletin states, “If Iranian leaders issue a religious ruling seeking retaliatory violence against their targets in their homeland, the possibility of violent extremists in their homeland would likely mobilize independently to violence in response to conflict.”

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NBC News Iran reported last week that it sent a message to Trump at the G7 Summit that it could activate “sleeper cells” and carry out terrorist attacks in the US.

“We have to assume that there is a possibility of a threat,” Lora Reese, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Guards and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital.

Leese said the government knows that 729 Iranian illegal immigrants have been released to the country under Biden, but the real concern is that “we don’t know” how many unknown “gotta” there is currently in the US.

She said the so-called concerns were the most serious. Sanctuary Jurisdiction That includes the population in Los Angeles that actively block federal immigration authorities from expelling them.

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“Democrats We need to support deportation,” she said, noting that despite the story of ice agents arresting innocent immigrants, many of the illegals are serious criminals, or in some cases even terrorists.

Andrew Arthur, an immigration policy expert at the Center for Immigration Research, told Fox News Digital that the “ultimate soft target” for terrorist attacks will be hospitals, particularly hospitals in sanctuary jurisdictions. He pointed to Iran’s recent bombing of hospitals in Israel’s Bear Shebah, demonstrating that the regime was willing to carry out such an attack.

“That could be in the US,” Arthur said. “If you’re trying to think of a soft target that could have a catastrophic effect, it’s hospital. ”

To prevent such attacks, Arthur emphasized the importance of federal, state and local law enforcement all working together to monitor and respond proactively to threats.

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“Fortunately, DNI (Director of National Intelligence) should know what potential targets they have in the future. DNI is not going to share it publicly, but it should flow through DHS to state and local law enforcement agencies,” he explained.

“The problem is, now we have all these state and local law enforcement agencies and sanctuary jurisdictions that don’t actually work with DHS,” he said. “It could create its own vulnerability.”

“It exacerbates the risk,” he continued. “especially In CaliforniaI think many law enforcement agencies in California are confused about what they can do with SB-54 (California Value Act), so it could potentially create their own vulnerabilities. ”

That being said, Arthur said Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks within the US would likely be a “suicidal move” and perhaps a “last hopeless move.” Still, Arthur said there remained “real concerns” about the Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks within the US borders.

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Other potential mass casualties targets can be locations such as the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Times Square, Independent Hall in Philadelphia, or other highly populated open areas.

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“The threat is realistic. Whether or not they will use it is a different question,” he concluded, adding that “the Biden administration puts the people of America at an unacceptable level of threat.”

On Monday evening, Trump wrote on social media: “It’s completely agreed between Israel and Iran and there’s a complete, complete ceasefire… 12 hours, at which point the war is considered!”

Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital and Bill Melugin of Fox News Channel contributed to this report.