DHS Admits 50 Illegals at Large as ISIS Network Smuggles Hundreds to U.S.

DHS officials identified over 400 individuals brought to the U.S. from Eastern European and Central Asian countries by an ISIS-affiliated smuggling network in the past several months.

Fox is reporting that 50 of these illegal aliens are still at large. Some of them match names that are in the terror watch list. Another 150 have either been removed, placed in removal proceedings, or are currently receiving additional screening.

in Arizona, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas emphasized that it was "incorrect" to say that 400 migrants with potential ties to ISIS had been brought to the U.S.

"We do not have identified 400 people with potential ISIS ties, and let me again assure you that individuals who are identified to have those ties would pose a concern to us from a public safety and security perspective and would be priorities for detention and removal," he said. "Precision when one is dealing with the facts is very, very important."

DHS does not believe this is an ISIS terror operation, but a network taking advantage of people seeking entry to the U.S. However, there is heightened security risk due to their countries of origin. Border officials are being instructed to detain any individuals coming from certain countries or associated with the network so additional vetting can be carried out.