FLASHBACK: US lawmakers, officials warned about terrorist attacks from foreign nationals long before Boulder

Lawmakers and quality experts person been sounding the alarm astir imaginable coercion threats stemming from those successful the U.S. illegally agelong earlier Sunday’s violent onslaught injured 8 radical successful Boulder, Colorado. 

Fox News archetypal reported that the fishy progressive successful the onslaught primitively entered the U.S. nether the Biden medication and had overstayed his visa.

But assorted officials person agelong cautioned astir the hazard of coercion owed to lax borderline security. 

For example, then-chair of the House Permanent Select Committee connected Intelligence Chair Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., raised concerns successful August 2024 after a study from House Judiciary Committee Republicans recovered that the Biden medication released astir 100 amerciable immigrants into the U.S. 

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Mohamed Sabry Soliman is seen being taken into custody connected Sunday, June 1. (@BHflyer5 via Storyful)

"Since the Biden-Harris Administration’s failed unfastened borderline policies person welcomed imaginable terrorists into our nation, we’re moving to combat these threats and safeguard Americans successful their ain backyards," Turner and Green said successful a associated connection successful August 2024 successful effect to the report. 

Meanwhile, the FBI has antecedently issued akin concerns astir overseas terrorists entering the U.S. and conducting attacks against American citizens. 

"I person warned for immoderate clip present astir the menace that overseas terrorists whitethorn question to exploit our southwest borderline oregon immoderate different larboard of introduction to beforehand a crippled against Americans," erstwhile FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee successful April 2024. "Just past month, for instance, the Bureau and our associated coercion task forces worked with ICE successful aggregate cities crossed the state arsenic respective individuals with suspected planetary violent ties were arrested utilizing ICE’s migration authorities."

Wray said successful 2024 that those arrests progressive hundreds of FBI employees to decently place unsafe individuals. But the usage of mendacious documents from those crossing the borderline amplifies concerns related coercion threats, and makes it adjacent much challenging for FBI employees to way down, Wray said. 

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FBI Director Christopher Wray resigned from his station starring the FBI successful December.  (Julia Nikhinson/Getty Images)

"As concerning arsenic the known oregon suspected terrorists encountered astatine the borderline are, possibly adjacent much concerning are those we bash not yet cognize astir due to the fact that they provided fake documents oregon due to the fact that we didn’t person accusation connecting them to coercion astatine the clip they arrived successful the United States," Wray said. 

Meanwhile, Democrats person claimed that U.S. citizens are chiefly liable for conducting violent enactment successful the U.S. For example, House Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee ranking subordinate Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., pointed to a survey from the Cato Institute that recovered that nary radical were murdered by a foreign-born violent who entered the U.S. illegally betwixt 1975 and 2022. 

"Most violent enactment is conducted by U.S. citizens," Correa said successful September 2024. "Again, zero Americans person been injured oregon killed by violent attacks perpetrated by undocumented immigrants who entered done the southwest border. However, DHS and the FBI regularly archer america that 1 of the top violent threats to our homeland is home terrorism."

Law enforcement officials said that Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, yelled "Free Palestine" and utilized a makeshift flamethrower to onslaught those attending an lawsuit successful Boulder, Colorado, organized by "Run for Their Lives," a grassroots radical that holds events urging the merchandise of Israeli hostages. 

Soliman was successful the U.S. illegally aft his visa expired, 3 Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources told Fox News. Soliman entered the U.S. successful 2022 connected a nonimmigrant visa, and yet obtained enactment authorization — but that expired successful March. 

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said FBI officials are coordinating with section instrumentality enforcement to analyse the attack. 

"We are investigating this incidental arsenic an enactment of terror, and targeted violence," Bongino said successful a station connected X connected Sunday. 

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An Israeli emblem is fixed to a thoroughfare motion arsenic constabulary basal by disconnected Pearl Street connected the country of an onslaught connected demonstrators calling for the merchandise of Israeli hostages held successful Gaza, successful Boulder, Colorado, connected June 1, 2025.  (ELI IMADALI/AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the Trump medication has chastised the Biden medication for its migration policies that facilitated Soliman’s introduction to the U.S.  

"A panic onslaught was committed successful Boulder, Colorado by an amerciable alien," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller wrote connected X. "He was granted a tourer visa by the Biden Administration and past helium illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a enactment permit. Suicidal migration indispensable beryllium afloat reversed."

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Meanwhile, Green described the onslaught arsenic a "wake-up call" regarding increasing panic threats jeopardizing information successful the U.S.