Sleeper cell concerns based on the number of Iranians known to have illegally entered the country under the Biden administration appear to have been surpassed only by the “deeply concerning” unknown total.
“We don’t know where they are.”
At the crossroads of open border policies and obstruction of funding for agencies responsible for protecting American sovereignty, senators have continued to raise the alarm on how years of the Democrats’ globalist agenda have put the public at grave risk. Over the weekend, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty (R) weighed in with his concern about the “greater than 0% probability” of Iranian sleeper cells in the United States.
“We have no idea how many people got around, obviously. The numbers are deeply concerning,” he told the New York Post.
“We don’t know where they are,” he went on. “Put it this way: there’s a greater than 0% probability that there’s a sleeper cell in America today, basically.”
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s June 2025-ordered strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer, concerns about the potential activation of sleeper cells accompanied reports of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by Fox News.
Under President Joe Biden, at least 1,500 residents of the Islamic state were arrested, and the open border crisis-exacerbating policies of his administration allowed for at least 729 to be released into the country through fiscal year 2024.
How likely is an Iranian sleeper cell attack on US soil? https://t.co/zMXCzv26Cm
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) June 24, 2025
Hardly fearmongering, increased concerns over the prevalence of Islamist adherence in the United States and attempts to promulgate Sharia Law have accompanied four alleged terrorist attacks over a matter of days. Included were attacks on a Texas bar by a man suspected of Iranian favor wearing a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt, a Michigan synagogue with a car filled with explosives, an attack at Old Dominion University in Virginia, where an ROTC instructor was killed, and the attempted bombing of a protest near the mayor’s residence in New York City.
Prohibited from divulging classified information, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden (D) told the Post, “Let me just tell you, I think that this is a moment with a lot of safety challenges and I’ll leave it at that.”
“There’s a good reason to be vigilant,” said Idaho Sen. James Risch (R), as Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) expressed, “I don’t think there’s any question they’re here. We’ve got to be so vigilant … it just takes one person.”
For his part, the commander-in-chief said earlier in March, “A lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border, but we know where most of them are: We’ve got our eye on all of them, I think.”
Efforts to safeguard against domestic threats include the ongoing strikes as part of Operation Epic Fury, wherein Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst reported a week later that Iranian Minister of Intelligence Esmaeil Khatib, cleric and overseer of the Islamic state’s sleeper cells and the rest of its global terror network, was killed in a “precision strike.”
NEW: A top Iranian leader who targeted current and former U.S. officials, including President Trump, was killed in a precision strike, Israel confirms.
Esmaeil Khatib was responsible for overseeing Iran’s entire global terror apparatus, including sleeper cells in locations… pic.twitter.com/liZ0tUfhdk
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 18, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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