{"id":147936,"date":"2025-07-16T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=147936"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:12:47","slug":"for-second-time-this-month-iranians-arrested-attempting-to-cross-northern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/for-second-time-this-month-iranians-arrested-attempting-to-cross-northern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"For second time this month, Iranians arrested attempting to cross northern border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/category\/breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>247 Real News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> July 16, 2025 <\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday arrested five Iranians who were attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Canada border.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147937\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-147937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nborder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants attempting to cross the U.S. northern border. \/ Customs and Border Protection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey are currently detained and pending removal proceedings,&#8221; CBP said. &#8220;Border security is national security and directly correlates to public safety. Swanton Sector Agents remain vigilant and committed to protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swanton Sector provides law enforcement support for the State of Vermont; Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, and Herkimer counties of New York; and Coos, Grafton, and Carroll counties of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians were arrested attempting to cross the border near a rural town in Vermont, CBP said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Border Patrol agents in Champlain, New York stopped a minivan near Mooers Forks and discovered five Iranian nationals and two Uzbek nationals inside, according to a statement from CBP&#8217;s Swanton Sector. The group was taken into custody after reports of suspicious activity were received.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a counterterrorism expert told Fox News Digital that Iranian terrorist sleeper cells could be hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight,&#8221; former FBI special agent and terrorism task force member Jonathan Gilliam said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we&#8217;ve seen over the past four years, everyone&#8217;s scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here and get in here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military crippled several Iranian nuclear sites after targeted airstrikes on June 22. After the strikes, Iranian leaders put a bounty on U.S. President Donald Trump, Geostrategy-Direct.com <a href=\"https:\/\/geostrategy-direct.com\/2025\/07\/blood-covenant-irans-state-media-back-bounty-on-president-trumps-head\/\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff \/ 247 Real News July 16, 2025 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday arrested five Iranians who were attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Canada border. \u201cThey are currently detained and pending removal proceedings,&#8221; CBP said. &#8220;Border security is national security and directly correlates to public safety. Swanton Sector Agents remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":147937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[158,159,6],"class_list":["post-147936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-exclusives","category-world-tribune","tag-for-second-time-this-month","tag-iranians-arrested-attempting-to-cross-northern-border","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}