The FBI has unveiled chilling new details about a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist's methodical plan to slaughter Jewish children at a Michigan school and community center, exposing yet another failure of our immigration system to keep America's enemies out.
At a Monday press conference, Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan detailed how Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon, spent his final days meticulously planning what he hoped would be a mass casualty attack against what he called "Israelis" - even though his targets were American children on American soil.
"This terrorist acted on behalf of Hezbollah," Runyan confirmed, laying bare the Iran-backed terror group's reach into American communities.
The March 12 attack attempt represents everything wrong with decades of failed immigration policies that allowed enemies of America to not just enter our country, but gain citizenship and plot against innocent families. While the FBI stopped this particular attack, how many other Hezbollah sleeper cells are operating in communities across America right now?
"He went to elaborate lengths to try to kill as many people as possible," the FBI revealed, showing the calculated nature of this foreign-inspired terrorism.
This is exactly why President Trump's America First agenda puts border security and extreme vetting at the top of the priority list. Under the previous administration's weak policies, terrorists like Ghazali were treated as ordinary immigrants rather than potential national security threats.
The fact that this monster specifically targeted Jewish children shows the global reach of Iran's proxy war against Israel - a war they're now bringing to American soil. Thank God the attack was thwarted, but this should serve as a wake-up call to every parent in America.
How many more foreign-born terrorists are walking among us, plotting their next attack while hiding behind the protection of American citizenship they never deserved?