Iranian illegal immigrant on terror watch list caught near southern border: sources
Texas authorities caught 29-year-old Alireza Heidari being smuggled in vehicle
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By Adam Shaw , Bill Melugin | Fox News


Iranian on terror watchlist caught at southern border

Bill Melugin reports the latest on the Fox News exclusive from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

EXCLUSIVE: Texas law enforcement arrested an Iranian illegal immigrant at the southern border whose name and date of birth subsequently turned out to be a match on the FBI’s terror watch list, Fox News has learned.

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested 29-year-old Alireza Heidari last week after a traffic stop involving a human smuggler at the border in Val Verde County, Texas as part of Operation Lone Star.

Heidari was being smuggled in the vehicle along with four other illegal immigrants. He was located in the trunk. Fox is told that Heidari was handed over to Border Patrol custody and later determined to be a match of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)

Fox reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Thursday and multiple times since. Only on Tuesday did DHS refer Fox to the FBI, which declined to comment. The FBI’s website says it does not confirm anyone’s status on the watch list.

BORDER PATROL NABBED 17 PEOPLE ON FBI TERROR WATCH LIST AT SOUTHERN BORDER IN DECEMBER -- excerpt, rest at link above --