McCaul appeared on ABC News’s This Week Sunday immediately following Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who responded to the two acts of terrorism from earlier in the week. While Mayorkas claimed that these attacks were “not an issue of the border,” McCaul suggested that more attacks could be on the horizon as eight ISIS individuals entered the U.S. via an illegal border crossing.
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“I think it’s a rising threat,” McCaul said. “So you really have two types of threats: One is operational. The other one is inspired attacks, radicalized over the internet. They’re both equally lethal, and [the new administration needs] to be focused on to stop it. There are usually warning signs, though, in these cases. I don’t really see a lot of warning signs, at least so far, other than right before the attacks. We have to pay attention to the social media and connect the dots before these events happen.”
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During the New Year’s Day celebration in New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Jabbar subverted a police barricade and drove through the crowds before shooting and killing fifteen people. McCaul noted that Jabbar visited Egypt before the attack, which concerned the congressman.
The man who perpetrated the 2013 Boston Marathon attack similarly went to Dagestan before he detonated a bomb at the race.
