The food at Leo’s Coney Island in Ypsilanti is so tasty that a man might find himself wandering 2,500 miles through thicket and dust to quench his hankering for the famed tuna on rye, pickle on the side.
And so it seems with Issam Bazzi, who used to work at Leo’s until he was swept up by ICE last July and deported back to Venezuela.
Bazzi, 53, is a Hezbollah-linked financier who crossed the southern border in 2021. While detained in Texas, Bazzi’s name came back as a positive hit on the FBI Terror Watch List. Biden let him move to Dearborn, anyway, the first known instance of a terror watch list resident knowingly being let into the U.S.
Bazzi was given a social security number, a driver’s license, and permission to work at Leo’s. Then Trump got elected and Bazzi got a one-way ticket back to Caracas.
Now DHS sources tell me Bazzi in on their radar again. He was pinged last week as being in Chiapas, Mexico. Apparently Bazzi is making his way back to Michigan, said a U.S. security official.
“Somebody should tell the guy that even if he makes it past mosquitoes and the cartels, he is not getting back in,” the official said.
Somebody should save Señor Bazzi the trouble of the journey and tell him about DoorDash.
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