Nebraska Sheriff Blames 2014 DACA Grant for White House UFC Terror Plot

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 19

Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson said Abraham Alvarez — the 31-year-old accused ringleader in the alleged White House UFC attack plot — should never have remained in the U.S. after overstaying a 2001 visa.
Hanson said Alvarez received DACA protection in 2014 under the Obama administration, arguing that decision let him stay in Nebraska and ultimately put the community and nation at risk.
June 14 was the alleged target date for the plot against the White House's UFC Freedom 250 event, where authorities say explosive drones would trigger an evacuation and funnel crowds toward snipers.
More than 20 suspects have been identified, Hanson said, after the FBI was tipped off days earlier and launched near round-the-clock surveillance with a Douglas County deputy on the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The case has widened from a disrupted event plot into a broader investigation of whether Alvarez had local or national collaborators and whether immigration policy failures helped enable the threat.