US says a smuggler with terrorist ties helped get migrants from Uzbekistan into the country
The Biden administration said Tuesday that it detected and stopped a network attempting to smuggle people from Uzbekistan into the United States and that at least one member of the network had links to a foreign terrorist group. U.S. officials do not believe the Uzbek nationals who used the smuggling network had any terrorist ties or were planning a terrorist attack, said a statement from National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson. The statement did not specify the foreign terrorist group, but a U.S. official told The Associated Press that it was the Islamic State. The official was