President Donald Trump blamed former President Joe Biden and his lax immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border for any Iranian “sleeper cells” that may have made it into the United States.
Trump said on Wednesday that his administration had “eyes on” a number of suspicious people who he said had crossed the border during the Biden administration, adding, “We know where most of them are. We’ve got our eye on all of them, I think.”
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.@pdoocy: “Have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now?”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “I have been and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are. We’ve got our eye on all of them,… pic.twitter.com/VrAqcXgfkr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 12, 2026
Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump about an alert — sent by the federal government to law enforcement offices all across the country — indicating that an encrypted message appeared to originate in Iran shortly after the launch of Operation Epic Fury and may have been designed to activate “sleeper cells” already in the United States and other parts of the world.
“Have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now?” Doocy asked.
“I have been and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are. We’ve got our eye on all of them, I think,” Trump replied.
“Is it dozens?” Doocy pressed, looking for clarification.
“They came in through the open border policies of ‘sleepy ‘Joe Biden. One of the worst…the worst president in the history of our country and we’ve got our eyes on all of them,” he added. “But the war itself is being prosecuted at a level that nobody’s seen before. It’s pretty — it’s pretty amazing to watch.”
President Trump has taken every opportunity to tout his administration’s actions and the accomplishments of the United States military — alongside the Israeli Defense Forces — in Operation Epic Fury’s first ten days, telling Republican members at a recent conference, “No other president could do some of the sh*t I’m doing.”
