Hamas, Hezbollah Terrorists Are on US Soil, Waiting for Iran’s Green Light to Attack, House Hearing Told

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Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) speaks to reporters after being elected chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee in a House Republican Steering Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, on Jan. 09, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials must assume that hundreds of Iranian-funded and -directed terrorist operatives with Hamas, Hezbollah, and similar groups are in the United States and can carry out lethal attacks across this country as soon as Iran gives them the green light, according to witnesses who testified at an Oct. 25 House Committee on Homeland Security hearing.

The committee’s chairman, Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), asked former Ambassador Nathan Sales, “What guarantees do we have” that Hamas and other Iranian-backed terrorists aren’t among the more than 1.7 million illegal immigrant “gotaways” that have crossed the southern U.S. border since 2021.