Two Somali nationals granted refugee statuses in the United States are accused of attempting to join the Islamic States (ISIS) in Egypt.
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last month announced that 21-year-old Ahmed Mahad Mohamed and 20-year-old Abdi Yemani Hussein — both refugees in the U.S. from Somalia were arrested on credible intelligence that they were planning to join ISIS.
Mohamed and Hussein were in constant communication with an undercover FBI agent who they believed was a supporter of ISIS and in these communications they had expressed their desire to travel to Egypt to fight for ISIS besides plotting attacks on American citizens on behalf of ISIS.
Eventually, the two bought flights to Egypt in an effort to fight for ISIS but were arrested by federal agents at the Tuscon International Airport in Arizona.
Mohamed and Hussein had planned to use the U.S. legal immigration system to obtain permanent residence, popularly known as green cards, and subsequently become naturalized American citizens making them non-deportable residents. They first arrive in the U.S. in 2014 from Somalia as refugees.
