A longtime Senate Democrat declined to directly condemn illegal immigration as a national security threat after it was revealed the terror plot to ambush the UFC White House event Sunday night was schemed by an immigrant from Mexico.Abraham Alvarez is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who overstayed his visa, according to Homeland Security information first obtained by Fox News Digital.He was identified as the alleged "ringleader" of a network of 23 individuals who planned to carry out a "mass casualty event" with explosive drones striking the White House on June 14.After reports surfaced that Alvarez was the architect of the failed terror attack, Fox News Digital asked Sen.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., if she views illegal immigration as a threat to the national security of the homeland. "We have to have good national security grid watch, and we have to stop terrorist attacks," the Washington Democrat replied, keeping it ambiguous.SMILING SUSPECT STANDS OUT AS AUTHORITIES RELEASE MUGSHOTS OF 5 ACCUSED IN ALLEGED WHITE HOUSE UFC ATTACK PLOTSen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., attend a confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Dec.3, 2025.
(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"I’ll look more into the specific details.Don’t know about it," she continued. Alvarez, 31, failed to leave the country when his B2 visitor visa expired in 2001 after coming to the U.S.
as a child.He was granted Dreamer status — deportation relief — by the Obama administration in 2014 through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and has remained in the U.S.
ever since under that program.Cantwell is not one of the Democrats who has adopted a particularly hard-line immigration stance in Congress.She has, however, repeatedly condemned aggressive immigration enforcement, particularly under the Trump administration.DEM BORDER REP BRAGS ABOUT VOTING AGAINST LAKEN RILEY ACTFILE - President Donald Trump announced his pick for the new U.S.
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