Jordanian Illegal Tried to Enter Quantico, Possibly on Terror Watchlist

A foreign national driving a truck attempted to enter a Marine Corps installation but was caught and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the second such recent attempt.

This time, the culprit was a Jordanian national, accompanied by another unknown individual, who had jumped the border illegally and pretended he was a delivery driver to enter the base. Target — Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. One of the two was on the FBI’s terror watchlist.

In March, a Chinese national — one of more than 40,000 whom border agents have encountered thus far this fiscal year — rushed through the gates at the base in Twenty-Nine Palms, California.

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