Federal law enforcement officials have arrested a man from Uzbekistan who is an alleged member of the ISIS terrorist organization and who has been living in the U.S. for the last two years while applying for asylum.
NBC News reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently arrested 33-year-old Jovokhir Attoev in Baltimore.
Attoev crossed the border in Arizona in February 2022, was apprehended by Border Patrol, and claimed he was an asylum seeker, the report said.
Officials claim that they could not find any “derogatory information” on him so they released him into the U.S. with a court date.
“Then, in May 2023, Uzbekistan put out an international notice that Attoev was wanted in his home country for his alleged affiliation with ISIS,” the report said. “But it was not until March 2024, almost a year later, when the U.S. government was reviewing Attoev’s…
