It took nearly a year for a Lebanese illegal migrant who arrived under the Biden administration and admitted that he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping “to make a bomb” to get his deportation papers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Post Monday.
Now, the Trump administration is working to finally boot him from the country.
New York-bound migrant Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, admitted his ties to the terrorist group, and ambitions when he was captured by border agents in El Paso, Texas, on March 9, 2024 — and was immediately held in federal custody.
During a medical screening in a processing center, Ebbadi was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document previously obtained by The Post.
Ebbadi was transferred to ICE nearly a week later with “order of expedited removal,” the agency said.
But because of administrative hurdles and a federal prison sentence he served, he’s only just now gotten a deportation order.
He was then convicted of entering the country illegally and sentenced to five months in federal prison on April 26.
Ebbadi was back in ICE custody after serving his sentence and was finally ordered deported by an immigration judge on Jan. 13.
The Lebanese migrant remains in ICE custody and has yet to be kicked out.
After he was captured at the border, Ebbadi claimed in an interview that he wanted to flee Lebanon and Hezbollah because he “didn’t want to kill people” and said “once you’re in, you can never get out.”
He also admitted that had received Hezbollah training for seven years and served as weapons guard for the terrorist organization for four more years.
Ebbadi’s training focused on “jihad” and killing non-Muslims, he said at the time.
The suspected terrorist didn’t have documents when he entered the US, claiming they were stolen at knifepoint in Costa Rica.
During the Biden administration, border agents caught nearly 400 suspected terrorists crossing the southern border illegally and let go countless others due to the overwhelming migrant surges.
In one case, Border Patrol released an Al-Shabaab terrorist from Somalia who roamed the US for nearly a year before ICE realized the mistake and nabbed him in Minnesota.
The Trump administration is also still hunting down more than 100 migrants with suspected ties to ISIS who crossed illegally into the US and were released under the Biden admin.
In an effort to crack down on the issue, the Trump administration has stopped the problematic “catch and release” policy that allowed millions of migrants to go free into the country.