‘Jihadist’ Lebanese migrant is caught crossing into Texas and tells Border Patrol ‘he was going to try and make a BOMB’ – as Biden’s border crisis spirals towards catastrophe [Video]

16:20 EDT 17 Mar 2024 , updated 16:29 EDT 17 Mar 2024

A Lebanese migrant who was caught illegally crossing the border near El Paso said he was ‘going to try to make a bomb,’ according to official records. 

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, also admitted he was a member of Hezbollah when he was intercepted by agents at the southwest Texas border with Mexico on March 9.

He was asked what he was doing in the US while in custody, to which he responded: ‘I’m going to try to make a bomb’ and he was on the way to New York. 

Ebbadi said he trained with Hezbollah for seven years before taking on a role guarding weapons locations for another four years, according to ICE records seen by the New York Post. 

It comes as a ‘migrant crime wave’ sweeps the country thanks to hundreds of thousands of people illegally crossing the border each month, as tensions risebetween Texan officials …