Hezbollah Member Set for Deportation After Entering U.S. Illegally Under Biden Admin
Charlie Kirk Staff
03/11/2025

A Lebanese illegal immigrant who admitted ties to the Hezbollah terror network is set to be deported, a year after being caught and released into the U.S. during Joe Biden’s presidency.
Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was arrested by border agents in El Paso, Texas, on March 9, 2024, and taken into federal custody. According to reports, he told investigators he planned to travel to New York to make a bomb and that his Hezbollah training focused on “jihad” and “killing people that was not Muslim.”
Ebbadi reportedly expressed interest in leaving the group because he “didn’t want to kill people,” but also claimed that “once you’re in, you can never get out.”
He was placed in isolation and referred to the Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT) after allegedly making “terroristic threats to personnel.”
“If an individual poses a potential threat to national security or public safety, we deny admission, detain, remove, or refer them to other federal agencies for further vetting, investigation and/or prosecution as appropriate,” a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson told Fox News Digital at the time.
Ebbadi was convicted of illegal entry and sentenced to five months in federal prison on April 26, according to the New York Post. He was ordered deported by an immigration judge on January 13 after serving his sentence. He had originally claimed his documents were stolen in Costa Rica.
The New York Post also reported that under the Biden administration, border authorities released 400 suspected terrorists who crossed into the U.S. illegally. In January 2024, ICE arrested a member of the Somali al-Shabaab terrorist group who had been living freely in Minnesota after entering the country illegally and being released by border officials in California.
To address security concerns, the Trump administration has ended the catch-and-release policy that had allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the U.S. under Biden.