The FBI is investigating more than a dozen migrants from Uzbekistan and other countries allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year . US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with the help of a smuggler with ties to ISIS according to multiple US officials . The FBI says no specific ISIS plot has been identified but officials are still working to identify and assess all of the individuals who gained entry to the United States . The incident kicked off a flurry of urgent meetings among top national security and administration officials . For some counterterrorism officials it shows that the US is deeply vulnerable to the possibility that terrorists could sneak across the . southern border by hiding amid the surge of migrants entering the country in search of asylum . And they are closely scrutinizing a number of the migrants as possible criminal threats according to two US officials. The FBI has not yet located all of these individuals who traveled as part of the network according to a statement from the National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson . There is no evidence at this point to justify detaining anyone at this time to justifydetaining anyone who has been accused of being a threat . The episode was so alarming that an urgent classified intelligence report was circulated to President Joe Bidens top Cabinet officials in their morning briefing book . There was no evidence to justify detain anyone the episode . The intelligence community now believes it is unlikely that he was assisting these individuals . The US is working with the smuggler. The intelligence department believes that he is unlikely to be a smugglers or that he had any of the migrants. The incident is not believed to have been arrested. The US has not been directly identified. The agency has not identified any of these migrants. It has not necessarily agreed to detain anyone
Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells
