The Trump administration’s mass deportation raids have nabbed more than 200 known or suspected terrorists since January — including one of India’s “most wanted,” who is accused of masterminding a grenade attack on a cop there and has ties to a US-designated terrorist organization in Pakistan.
Since President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have arrested 219 known or alleged terrorists, marking a 655% increase from the same period last year when 29 such arrests were made under former President Joe Biden, according to new Homeland Security data obtained by The Post.
Among the dozens of terrorists swept up in Trump’s raids was Harpreet Singh, a citizen of India who entered the US illegally on Jan. 27, 2022 by crossing from Mexico into Arizona and was swiftly released into the country by Border Patrol agents with a future court date, a DHS official said.
The Biden administration is to blame for allowing Singh to roam the country for more than three years, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post.
“The Biden administration not only let a wanted terrorist into our country, but after he was arrested by Border Patrol agents, they released him into the interior of our country,” she charged.
“While shocking, it’s not surprising given the Biden administration routinely released unvetted terrorists and criminals into American communities,” she added.
Singh is one of his home country’s “most wanted men” for providing terrorist funds, recruitment and planning of a grenade attack on an Indian Police Station and on a retired Punjab cop’s house with the intent to kill and instill fear among law enforcement officers, according to DHS.
He is also wanted for multiple violent extortion and threatening operations in India.
Indian officials believe Singh is a senior operative directly linked to Harwinder Singh Rinda, an infamous figure in the Pakistan-based Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), which the US designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2002.
The religious extremist terror group started in the late 1970s and has taken part in assassinations of politicians, armed attacks and bombings, according to DHS.
But it is not clear whether or not border agents were aware of Singh’s terror ties before they let him go in 2022.
ICE was able to nab Singh in Sacramento last week.
“He had been evading capture by using untraceable burner phones and encrypted applications,” the FBI said in a statement announcing his arrest.
The Trump administration vows to continue to collar the terrorists “who have operated with impunity on American soil,” McLaughlin said.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, ICE is unleashed to remove these violent criminals from America’s streets and put an end to catch and release,” she said.
