This aerial picture taken in September 2023 shows the U.S.-Mexico border in San Ysidro, California. Kerwan originally entered the U.S. in that area in March 2023, DHS sources say. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images)
Eleven months later, in February 2024, Karwan was officially added to the FBI terror watchlist after "derogatory" new information was developed on him, multiple DHS sources told Fox News. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was notified, and ICE arrested him in San Antonio in February, the sources said.
Two weeks ago, during a court appearance, DHS prosecutors did not tell the federal immigration judge that the Afghan was on the terror watchlist or a possible national threat, only arguing that he was a possible flight risk. DHS cannot disclose what they do or don’t say in court, and is limited in what the department can tell a judge, senior DHS officials told Fox News.
The judge ordered him released on bond, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar addresses the supporters during a rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, in May 2017.
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The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center describes "Hezb-e-Islami, or ‘Party of Islam,’" as a "political and paramilitary organization in Afghanistan founded in 1976 by former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has been prominent in various Afghan conflicts since the late 1970s."Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) is an offshoot of that original Hezb-e-Islami, and is a virulently anti-Western insurgent group whose goal is to replace the Western-backed Afghan Government with an Islamic state rooted in sharia in line with Hekmatyar’s vision of a Pashtun-dominated Afghanistan," it adds. "His group conducts attacks against Coalition forces, Afghan Government targets, and Western interests in Afghanistan."
Fox News’ David Spunt and Madeleine Rivera contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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