Top Republicans probe Biden admin on Afghan nationals' alleged Election Day terrorist plot

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Committee connected Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., led respective different Republicans successful demanding answers from the Biden-Harris medication astir 2 Afghan nationals arrested successful Oklahoma for allegedly plotting an Election Day violent attack. 

Earlier this month, an Afghan nationalist surviving successful Oklahoma was arrested and charged with plotting a violent onslaught connected Election Day with an underage co-conspirator connected behalf of ISIS. 

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Sen. Rand Paul, right, led a missive sent to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, left, requesting important accusation astir the Afghan nationals charged with plotting a violent attack. (Reuters)

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, came into the state connected Sept. 9, 2021 connected a peculiar migrant visa aft the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan nether President Biden.

"After entering the United States, Tawhedi promoted ISIS propaganda, sent funds to known charities linked to ISIS enactment networks, and liquidated each assets to acquisition weapons; with the remaining funds intended for the ISIS Treasury," Paul wrote Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas successful a missive Friday afternoon, which was joined by Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan. 

"Tawhedi was moving with a juvenile co-conspirator with ineligible imperishable nonmigratory presumption who had entered the United States connected March 27, 2018, utilizing a SIV. According to reports, the 2 Afghan nationals planned to transportation retired a violent, equipped onslaught connected Election Day."

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"This alarming incidental adds to a increasing database of akin information breaches, raising superior concerns astir the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) quality to efficaciously support our homeland," the senators said.

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Afghan radical ascent atop a level arsenic they hold astatine the Kabul airdrome successful Kabul connected Aug. 16, 2021 aft a stunningly swift extremity to Afghanistan's 20-year war, arsenic thousands of radical mobbed the city's airdrome trying to fly the group's feared hard-line marque of Islamist rule. (Getty Images)

"The screening and vetting processes nether the Biden-Harris medication are intelligibly failing, allowing criminals and individuals with violent links to exploit vulnerabilities successful the system. Given the important menace to American lives, it is imperative that we person elaborate accusation to afloat recognize the scope of these issues," the missive continued. 

The Republicans prompted Mayorkas and DHS to supply each records and information connected Tawhedi and his co-conspirator's migration statuses and transgression history, arsenic good arsenic communications betwixt national departments and agencies regarding them and the accusation successful the individuals' Terrorist Screening Data Set.

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A newsman raises his manus to inquire a question of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, during a property briefing connected Monday, July 15, 2024 astatine the White House successful Washington. (AP)

The DHS did not instantly supply remark to Fox News Digital. 

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Tawhedi was charged little than a period earlier Election Day, which volition instrumentality spot connected Nov. 5. 

The missive from apical Republicans connected the Homeland Security committee comes with little than 2 weeks until the statesmanlike contest.