Tuberville says 9/11 attack could happen ‘every few weeks’ because of Biden’s open border

Sen. Tommy Tuberville attacked President Biden’s border flood, saying that it could lead to terrorist attacks “every few weeks” on the level of Sept. 11, 2001.

“It is going to get us in so much trouble,” the Alabama Republican said Monday on Newsmax. “We’re going to have a 9/11 attack every few weeks if we don’t watch it.”

“It is out of control. But this group could care less,” he said of the Biden administration. “Being a senator, you know, I’m not a senator. I was an educator, and I’m up here watching what’s going on, and I’m thinking, you know, who cares? Who cares about the American people? Who cares about the taxpayers of this country? I can’t find anybody on both sides of the aisle. It’s about spending damn money, and I’m sick of it.”

Mr. Tuberville said that as soon as Hamas launched its attack on Israel on Oct. 7, Mr. Biden should’ve instructed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to assign all available military to the southern border.

“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds of terrorists come across the border and, you know what, we could care less,” he said. “Not ’we,’ the Biden administration.”

According to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, 169 individuals on the terror watchlist were stopped at the southern border in fiscal 2023 compared with 98 in 2022 and 15 in 2021.

Mr. Tuberville joined nearly two dozen Republican lawmakers in October to write a letter to Mr. Austin and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that discussed the attack on Israel and whether that could happen in the U.S. by someone who passed the border.

“In light of the barbaric attack in Israel, we are also concerned about Iran’s proxies and other terrorist groups taking advantage of the southern border to launch a terror attack from within our homeland,” the lawmakers wrote.

“I’m telling you, I’m sick of it. I’m sick of watching what’s going on up here, and if we don’t wake up, it’s gonna be over,” Mr. Tuberville said on Newsmax.