https://www.breitbart.com/border/2026/02/22/exclusive-ex-biden-dhs-officials-behind-record-border-failures-now-advising-cbp-on-high%e2%80%91risk-traveler-screening/

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Biden DHS Officials Behind Record Border Failures Now Advising CBP on High‑Risk Traveler Screening

Ex-Biden officials Jason Houser (former ICE Chief of Staff) and Troy Miller (former acting CBP Commissioner) are part of a group tasked with suggesting enhancements to the Trump administration’s National Targeting Center (NTC) at CBP. A high-level source inside the agency is mystified by how overseers of Biden-era policies that led to record-breaking border failures are now working with the current CBP Commissioner on this key national security effort.

Records reviewed by Breitbart Texas reveal that Jason Houser — who has labeled Trump’s immigration policies “racist” — and Troy Miller — who, as Biden’s Acting CBP Commissioner, often amplified Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s claims that the Biden-era border was closed to irregular migration — joined a Tuesday meeting with senior Trump administration CBP officials to discuss NTC changes.

The CBP National Targeting Center analyzes traveler data and threat intelligence to flag high-risk individuals before they board U.S.-bound flights. It cross-checks passenger information against U.S. government databases and no-fly lists. The source could not explain how Houser and Miller are positioned to “improve” high-risk traveler screening when a House Judiciary Committee report exposed nearly 100 terrorist watchlist suspects were inadvertently released into the United States at the southwest border during their prominent tenures in the Biden-Harris DHS.

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The source says the inclusion of the pair in the national security project is a slap in the face to CBP employees who had to deal with the impact of open-border policies during the Biden-Harris years. “There is no one more publicly critical of the Trump administration efforts to enforce immigration laws than Houser, he’s appeared time after time alleging the current efforts to arrest illegal aliens are based on skin color and not existing immigration law,” the source told Breitbart Texas.

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