They Targeted Immigrants While White Supremacists Played Sleeper Cell

Foreign cells may exist. But the real terror—the mass shooters, the militias, the arsenals—is already here.

Data don’t lie: 65% of terror deaths by white supremacists; immigrants jailed at less than half the U.S. rate.

For years, the American public has been told who to fear.

Fear the immigrant.

Fear the transgender athlete.

Fear the refugee, the poor, the protester.

But not the actual threats—never that.

This week, in a quiet but damning admission, the FBI confirmed it is finally scrambling to reassign agents back to counterterrorism, after wasting years and unauthorized tax dollars helping ICE chase down undocumented workers. Yes, that ICE—the one that’s been grabbing people off the street and dragging them from their jobs at nursing homes, restaurants, farms and other workplaces without charges or due process.

And while they did that, the real threats were here.

Building arsenals.

Stockpiling tactical gear.

Planning attacks.

Publishing manifestos.

And walking into schools, synagogues, and government buildings—armed and ready.

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The Double Blind: Sleeper Cells and Domestic Lies

In the wake of U.S. bombings in Iran, intelligence chatter has once again turned to sleeper cells—the fear that foreign actors could be lying in wait, ready to retaliate.

It’s not impossible. We should stay alert.

But let’s not kid ourselves.

If sleeper cells exist, they’re not just in Tehran’s imagination. They’re already operating on Telegram. In Idaho. In Florida. In Tennessee. At the Capitol.

The term sleeper cell was sold to us as an image of brown-skinned outsiders sneaking in to destroy us. But the actual violence has come overwhelmingly from white men radicalized on U.S. soil, acting in the name of race, God, Trump and nationalism.

And yes—some of the “foreign threats” we hear about may even be exaggerated or staged, to justify new laws, surveillance powers, and silencing of dissent. It’s an old playbook: manufacture fear, demand obedience.

We’ve seen it before. And we’re seeing it now.

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Who’s Really Dangerous?

Let’s get painfully honest:

• Over 65% of U.S. domestic terror deaths in the past decade came from white supremacist extremists.

• DHS says domestic violent extremists are the “primary, persistent, and lethal” threat to the U.S. through 2025.

• Native-born Americans are incarcerated at nearly double the rate of undocumented immigrants, and almost four times the rate of legal immigrants.

The people we’ve been told to fear are the least likely to hurt us. The ones we’ve been ignoring? Already have.

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Wrong Targets, Real Threats

The FBI diverted its counterterrorism agents to back up ICE raids—while militias trained, insurrectionists plotted, and mass shootings became routine.

And now?

Now the FBI is playing catch-up.

Now, when it may be too late.

Now, we are less safe.

We are fighting the wrong battles while the real enemies grow bolder.

And every diverted FBI agent, every masked ICE raid, every cable-news distraction…

Has left us less safe.

It’s time to stop treating hard-working immigrants as criminals, and start treating actual criminals—domestic and foreign—as threats.

Because fear is a weapon.

And we’ve let it be pointed at the wrong people for far too long.