Following the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, officials around the US are on high alert.

There isn’t a specific threat, but in recent days, the FBI and DHS have talked to governors and law enforcement agencies about the heightened danger environment.

Sources claim that the FBI has also sent some of its agents back to terrorist operations after they were helping with immigration-related issues. US immigration agents detained 11 Iranian nationals in the US within two days of the Iranian strikes, including males who were suspected of having connections to Iran’s paramilitary and military proxy groups.

How serious is the current terror threat to America?

The Department of Homeland Security has said that there are presently no serious threats to US soil, and authorities have not indicated that any of the people detained were participating in or connected to a specific plot in the US.

The arrests were part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to deport illegal immigrants in the United States, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE reports that one guy detained in Minnesota had “admitted connections to Hezbollah” and was allegedly a previous member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

Another individual who was detained in Mississippi had supposedly been classified by the United States as a known or suspected terrorist and had been in the country for eight years. Before immigrating to the US in 2024, another guy detained in Alabama reportedly worked as a sharpshooter for the Iranian military for three years.

How are authorities responding to threats?

According to US media, DHS and the FBI made the arrests after calling hundreds of law enforcement agencies and state leaders over the weekend to inform them of the heightened threat environment and to ensure they are being vigilant and reaching out to those who may be at risk, including members of the Jewish community.

Officials from the Trump administration and Republican senators have frequently discussed the threat posed by Iranian “sleeper cells” that entered the US during the Biden administration in recent days.

Iran has a long history of funding violent attacks in the US, according to Dr. Lorenzo Vidino of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, even though the country has not publicly threatened to attack the US homeland, and there is currently a ceasefire in place in the conflict between Iran and Israel.

Are FBI resources being diverted from immigration enforcement?

According to reports, certain FBI employees who were concentrating on immigration enforcement as part of Trump’s deportation agenda have been redirected to counterterrorism. A message instructing field offices to concentrate resources on terror concerns was sent out by the agency on Sunday.

No change in priorities has been confirmed by the FBI.

“The FBI does not comment on specific operational adjustments or personnel decisions,”

the agency stated in a statement.

“However, we continuously assess and realign our resources to respond to the most pressing threats to our national security and to ensure the safety of the American people.”