DHS watchdog finds ‘multiple mistakes’ that led to migrant on terror watch list being released into US

The DHS Office of Inspector General has faulted processes and multiple mistakes which it said led to the release of a migrant on the FBI's terror watch list.

However, two days later on April 21 in Palm Springs, California, the migrant and his family checked in for a flight to Tampa, Florida, at which point the FBI obtained additional information from TSA and found he was a positive watch list match and informed Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who then contacted the ICE subsidiary office in Tampa. The migrant missed the flight to California, but rebooked a flight to Florida the next day, the report says. He was later picked up by ICE in Florida on May 6. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

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While the migrant is not named in the report, Fox News reported last year that the migrant was a Colombian citizen and was put on GPS monitoring as an alternative to detention. ICE did not receive authorization to arrest him until May 4, Fox reported in May.