FBI Director: Border Crisis Has Created ‘Wide Array of Very Dangerous Threats’

The situation at the southern border has the FBI on alert for dangerous individuals entering the United States, the director said.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the "Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment" in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 11, 2024. Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP

The surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border has yielded “very dangerous threats” for the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified on March 11.

While being questioned by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Wray confirmed that a variety of “dangerous individuals” had entered the United States via the U.S.–Mexico border.