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An Afghan national identified as Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was arrested in Texas after allegedly posting a video on TikTok in which he appeared to be building a bomb and threatened to blow up a building in the Fort Worth area, a disturbing claim confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security. Local authorities say the case was treated as a terroristic threat and quickly handed to state prosecutors, a situation that should alarm every American who values safety in their communities.
Law enforcement officials say the Texas Department of Public Safety and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force moved in on the tip and took Alokozay into custody, with court records indicating he was booked into the Tarrant County jail on the state charge of making terroristic threats. Authorities also report that Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer, underscoring the federal interest in the case and hinting at immigration consequences if the allegations are proven.
Crucially, Alokozay was paroled into the United States under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program — the same resettlement effort that brought thousands of Afghan nationals to American soil after the chaotic 2021 withdrawal. That program has been praised in some circles, but when people admitted under it are later accused of plotting violence, Americans are rightly demanding answers about vetting and oversight.
The arrest came almost hand-in-hand with another gut-wrenching incident: prosecutors say a different Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing one of them, an attack that has raised fresh questions about how the administration screens who it lets into the country. The timing and similarity of these two incidents cannot be dismissed as coincidence by those in charge of our security.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin publicly flagged the Fort Worth threat and linked it to individuals paroled under Operation Allies Welcome, a rare admission from a senior official that should trigger an immediate congressional review of the program’s safeguards. If the administration is going to bring people here in mass numbers, then it must be transparent about vetting failures and commit to repairing them before another tragedy strikes.
Let’s be clear: law enforcement should be supported as they investigate and prosecute anyone who threatens American lives, regardless of origin. But support for the police must be paired with accountability from the White House — the American people deserve to know why policies that increase risk to communities were used and who will fix them.
Congress needs to act now to rein in parole programs that lack rigorous screening, to fund better intelligence-sharing between federal and local agencies, and to make deportation and detention practice swift and certain when terroristic threats are proven. Hardworking Americans do not want to live in a country where social media boasts turn into real-world danger because of political mismanagement in Washington.
This is not about xenophobia; it is about practical, common-sense national security. Patriots stand with victims and law enforcement, and we demand the truth, accountability, and changes that actually keep our streets safe.
