Hospitals could be “soft targets” for Iran’s terrorist attacks, warns the expert

Following information that 729 Iranian nationals entered illegally in the United States and was released in the country by the Biden administration, experts warn that the sanctuary jurisdictions with policies obstructing ice and the federal immigration application could be the most vulnerable targets for terrorist attacks sponsored by Iran, During the weekend.

The number of Iranians released in the country by agents of the border patrol under the administration of former President Joe Biden has successively increased the administration. In total, Border Patrol arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals for the year 2021 in the year 2024. Of the 1,504 arrested people, 729 were released in the United States.

Only a few hours after Trump tackled the nation on US military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, the DHS has published a new memo ringing on an “increased threat environment in the United States”.

The bulletin declares: “The probability of violent extremists in the fatherland are independently mobilized to violence in response to the conflict would probably increase whether the Iranian management issuing a religious decision calling for violence against reprisals against the targets of the fatherland.”

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The concerns are the most acute in the so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, such as California or Massachusetts, which have policies or, in the case of Los Angeles, populations which actively obstruct the federal immigration authorities to export. (Istock and Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)

NBC News reported that Iran had sent a message to Trump at the G7 summit last week that it could activate “sleeping cells” to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States

“We have to assume that threats can arise,” Fox News Digital Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News.

Ries said that the government is aware that 729 Iranian illegal immigrants are released in the country under Biden, the real concern is that “we have no idea” how many “Gotaways” unknown could currently be in the United States.

She said the concerns are the most acute in the so -called sanctuary courts who have policies or, in the case of Los Angeles, populations who actively obstruct the federal immigration authorities for the deportation effort.

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The demonstrators compete with the police outside a federal building in downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump “No Kings Day” demonstration in a city that was the subject of demonstrations against Trump’s immigration raids on June 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Spencer Platt / Getty images)

“Democrats must begin to support deportations,” she noted, stressing that despite a story that ice agents stop innocent immigrants, many illegals are serious criminals, or in some cases even terrorists.

Andrew Arthur, an immigration policy expert at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital that the “ultimate sweet target” for a terrorist attack would be a hospital, in particular hospitals in the jurisdictions of the sanctuary. He stressed that the recent bombing by Iran of a hospital in Be’er Sheva, Israel, demonstrating that the regime is willing to carry out such an attack.

“This is a possibility in the United States,” said Arthur. “If we try to think of a gentle target that would potentially have catastrophic impacts, it would be a hospital.”

To prevent such an attack, Arthur stressed the importance of the application agencies of the federal, state and local law working all together to monitor and respond proactively to threats.

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Smokes rises from a building from the Soroka hospital complex after being struck by a missile from Iran in Be’er Sheva, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Leo Correa / AP Photo)

“Fortunately, DNI (the national intelligence director) should have an idea of ​​what the potential targets are in the future. DNI will not share this publicly, but everything that should go through the DHS to state and local law agencies,” he explained.

“The problem is at the moment, we have all these state of state and premises for the application of the law and the sanctuary jurisdictions which really do not cooperate with the DHS,” he said. “It could create your own vulnerability.”

“It worsens the risk,” he continued. “In particular in California, because I think that many law enforcement organizations in California are confused as to what they can do and cannot do under SB -54 – California Values ​​Act – so that it can potentially create its own vulnerability.”

That said, Arthur said that a terrorist attack sponsored by Iran inside the United States would probably be a “suicidal decision” for the regime and would probably be a “last desperate decision”. Despite this, Arthur said that there was a “real concern” concerning terrorist attacks sponsored by Iran within American borders.

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Other potential targets of mass victims could be places such as the National Mall in Washington, DC, Times Square, Independence Hall in Philadelphia or other very populated open zones. (Caitlin Ochs / Reuters)

Other potential targets of mass victims could be places such as the National Mall in Washington, DC, Times Square, Independence Hall in Philadelphia or other very populated open zones.

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“The threat is real. That they will use it, this is a different question,” he concluded, adding: “The Biden administration exposed the American people to an unacceptable level of threat.”

Monday evening, Trump posted on social networks that “it was fully agreed and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire … for 12 hours, how much war will be, finished!”

Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital and Bill Melugin of Fox News Channel contributed to this report.