Illegal Immigration status revealed in shooting of Jewish man in Dem-controlled city

The fishy charged with shooting a Jewish man aggregate times connected his mode to a Chicago synagogue past week is simply a Mauritanian amerciable migrant who was released into the U.S. past year, Fox News has confirmed. 

Four instrumentality enforcement sources accidental that Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, a Mauritanian national, was apprehended successful Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector successful March 2023 and was released into the U.S.

Police accidental helium attacked the 39-year-old antheral unfortunate connected Saturday greeting successful Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. Police said that the fishy was identified little than 30 minutes aft the shooting, astatine which constituent helium allegedly changeable astatine responders earlier constabulary "returned fire, striking the offender." The victim, who was wearing accepted Jewish clothing, survived the attack.

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Police analyse a shooting connected Saturday, Oct. 26 successful the West Ridge vicinity of Chicago, Ill. (Fox32 Chicago)

Police said they recovered a limb from the country and that Abdallahi was "placed into custody, transported to an country infirmary and subsequently charged accordingly." Abdallahi is facing 14 felony counts, including six counts of attempted murder. 

Mauritania is simply a bulk Muslim state successful northwest Africa. The Department of Homeland Security deems amerciable immigrants from Mauritania arsenic "special involvement aliens" owed to information concerns, and they are expected to person further DHS vetting. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had initially told Fox News Digital that it had nary enactment with him. Law enforcement sources accidental that determination is detainer petition connected Abdallahi — a petition that helium is transferred to ICE custody successful the lawsuit of his merchandise — but that "sanctuary" policies successful Cook County, Illinois, prohibit section authorities from cooperating with it.

Local Jewish leaders judge this was a targeted hatred crime, but nary hatred transgression charges person been filed arsenic of now.

There has been a important summation successful Mauritanian arrivals, putting unit connected towns similar Lockland, Ohio, wherever much than 3,000 migrants person arrived successful the colony of 3,500. A Washington Post investigation successful June recovered that implicit 15,000 residents from Mauritania came to the U.S. past year, a 2,800% summation implicit 2022, erstwhile conscionable 543 arrived. 

This divided shows Mauritanian immigrants astatine the borderline and the Lockland colony administrator. (John Moore/Getty Images and Fox News Digital)

The incidental taps into ongoing concerns astir the imaginable for terrorists to travel crossed the confederate border, amid the monolithic numbers of migrants who person travel crossed during the borderline crisis.

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A House study successful August recovered that of the much than 250 amerciable immigrants connected the violent watchlist who were encountered by Border Patrol astatine the southwest borderline betwixt fiscal years 2021 and 2023, DHS released astatine slightest 99, with astatine slightest 34 others successful DHS custody but not yet removed from the U.S.

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The unit interim report besides recovered that migration judges granted enslaved to astatine slightest 27 migrants connected the watchlist who entered illegally, and that Border Patrol has encountered tens of thousands of migrants from countries that could contiguous nationalist information risks — including 2,134 Afghan nationals, 33,347 Chinese nationals, 541 Iranian nationals, 520 Syrian nationals and 3,104 Uzbek nationals.

"That does not see the untold numbers of imaginable terrorists that evaded Border Patrol to participate the United States arsenic portion of astir 2 cardinal ‘gotaways’ since the opening of the Biden-Harris Administration," the study says.

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That menace from overseas nationals deed the headlines this period erstwhile authorities announced the apprehension of an Afghan national, accused of plotting an Election Day panic plot, who had been paroled into the U.S. amid the hasty U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report.