The threat of sleeper cells in the U.S. has \u201cnever been higher,” though there are no current specific threats, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).<\/p>\n
A memo sent Saturday from CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, obtained by The Hill\u2019s sister network NewsNation, said “thousands of Iranian nationals have been documented entering the United States illegally and countless more were likely in the known and unknown got-a-ways.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThough we have not received any specific credible threats to share with you all currently, the threat of sleeper cells or sympathizers acting on their own, or at the behest of Iran has never been higher,\u201d Scott added.<\/p>\n
The memo urged CBP personnel to remain “vigilant.”<\/p>\n
On Saturday, President Trump announced that the U.S. had bombed three<\/a> Iranian nuclear sites, stepping into an ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel. Iran\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations slammed the U.S.\u2019s involvement in its<\/a> conflict against Israel and said his nation\u2019s military would figure out its response to the strikes.<\/p>\n NewsNation correspondent Rich McHugh said Friday on the network<\/a> that \u201cexperts that we’ve talked to said that should the U.S. join these strikes against Iran, they may try to activate these sleeper cells in the U.S. and the West.\u201d<\/p>\n On Sunday, retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, said that he believed<\/a> U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria were \u201ccertainly vulnerable\u201d to retaliatory attacks by Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The threat of sleeper cells in the U.S. has \u201cnever been higher,” though there are no current specific threats, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A memo sent<\/p>\n