By the time intelligence collected on overseas ISIS targets connected the men to the terror group, they had already been vetted by immigration authorities and allowed into the country, officials said.
The men remain in federal custody on immigration charges and will eventually be deported following the counterterror investigation into them.
US officials and analysts who closely track Islamist terror groups do know that ISIS-K has dramatically ramped up its online propaganda machine.
But that’s not necessarily a reliable gauge of the number of actual terrorists who may be trying to enter the United States, US officials argue.
Or they could belong to a legacy terror group — like the FARC — that isn’t known for conducting attacks on US soil.
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