DHS blames ‘weak’ Biden border policies after piracy-linked Somali illegal immigrant nabbed at northern border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers person arrested a Somali amerciable migrant who authorities accidental is linked to a past piracy lawsuit and faces an outstanding warrant for passport fraud.

Said Jama Ahmed is being held successful North Dakota connected amerciable introduction charges aft agents apprehended him adjacent the U.S.-Canada borderline earlier this month.

Officials said his fingerprints lucifer records collected during a 2012 U.S. Navy cognition involving suspected Somali pirates successful the Gulf of Aden, according to a Friday announcement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

"Weak Biden Administration borderline policies allowed this amerciable alien to enter and remain in the state despite his multiple law enforcement encounters," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said successful a statement. 

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Said Jama Ahmed is being held successful North Dakota connected amerciable introduction charges aft agents apprehended him adjacent the U.S.-Canada borderline earlier this month. (Department of Homeland Security and Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency)

According to DHS, Ahmed was archetypal spotted connected April 14 by an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police serviceman walking southbound with a backpack a fewer miles northbound of the border.

About 2 hours later, a U.S. Border Patrol cause located Ahmed and took him into custody.

The fingerprint lucifer ties Ahmed to a 2012 incidental successful which the USS Halsey, a Navy guided-missile destroyer, responded to a distress telephone from an Indian-flagged vas hijacked by pirates, according to DHS.

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DHS says Ahmed was archetypal spotted connected April 14 by an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A Navy boarding squad encountered Ahmed and 9 others who were allegedly equipped and holding the vessel hostage.

"A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) squad conducted boarding operations and encountered Ahmed and 9 different equipped pirates who had taken the Indian vessel hostage by force, wherever the Navy past logged Ahmed’s fingerprint," DHS said.

Authorities accidental Ahmed entered the U.S. successful September 2022 adjacent San Luis, Arizona, and has had aggregate anterior encounters with instrumentality enforcement.

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"Weak Biden Administration borderline policies allowed this amerciable alien to enter and remain in the state despite his multiple law enforcement encounters," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said successful a statement. (@ushomelandsecurity via YouTube)

In 2024, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained him during a hunt for fraudulent documents.

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A afloat extradition warrant was issued successful April 2025, according to DHS.

"We are thankful for our hardworking U.S. CBP officers and Canadian officials for their cooperation in arresting this individual," Bis added. "DHS volition proceed to enactment to arrest criminal amerciable aliens to support the American homeland from each threats."