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Afghan evacuees with child-fondling, terror arrests swept up in DHS crackdown after botched vetting exposed

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EXCLUSIVE: Afghan evacuees with rap sheets that include convictions for sexual battery and lewd acts with a minor and arrests for alleged child-fondling and terror-group support were among the "worst of the worst" recently swept up by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.DHS released the list days after one former Afghan evacuee allegedly shot two West Virginia Guardsmen, killing one, and another was charged in a Newark, Del., terror plot. The agency says the arrests reveal explosive failures in the 2021 vetting system that rushed evacuees into the country after Kabul fell.Biden adminis...