Watchdog Group Claims Islamic State Has Camp Near U.S. Border with Mexico

A conservative watchdog group claimed this week that the Islamic State terror group is reportedly operating a base near Mexico's border with the U.S.

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently reported that sources have confirmed that the Islamic State has set up a camp in Juárez, just eight miles from Mexico's border with the U.S. city of El Paso.

The sources, which are allegedly connected to Mexico's police force, told Judicial Watch that Islamic State terrorists have reportedly been sneaking into the U.S. through cities in Texas from Mexico.

"These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing," Judicial Watch reported this week.

The report from the group adds that terrorists have been able to sneak into the country with the help of a major Mexican drug cartel.

Last August, Texas Governor Rick Perry said that it was a "very real possibility" that Islamic State terrorists would be able to pass from Mexico into the U.S.

"There's the obvious great concern that, because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secure, and us not knowing who is penetrating across, that individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states could be [crossing]," Perry said. "There's a very real possibility that they may have already used that [strategy]."

However, claims made by California Rep. Duncan Hunter that 10 Islamic State militants had crossed into the U.S. border in October 2014 were deemed false by the Department of Homeland Security.