{"id":519888,"date":"2026-03-12T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/519888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:45:08","slug":"fbi-memo-to-ca-law-enforcement-sparks-concerns-over-attack-on-us-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/519888\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI memo to CA law enforcement sparks concerns over attack on US soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND)  \u2014 On the<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/fbi-sounds-alarm-over-alleged-iranian-covert-drone-plot-targeting-california-department-of-homeland-security#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> West Coast of the United States<\/a>, there has been an ongoing push for law enforcement and really everyone, to remain on high alert, as <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/fbi-warns-iran-aspired-attack-california-drones-retaliation\/story?id=130973820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first reported by ABC news.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>Iran\u2019s retaliatory attacks thus far have been limited to regional targets an oil tanker in the Persian gulf, and U.S. bases nearby. (TNND)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With the Academy Awards just a few days away, some are raising concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_WilliamsonBen\/status\/2032112311972814881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an FBI memo<\/a> sent to law enforcement agencies across California, warning them in early February the agency had received unverified information  that Iran aspired to &#8220;conduct a surprise attack using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV&#8217;s)  from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland&#8221;  to target California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think logistically, you have a very, very broad, open coastline on the western coast of the united states. It goes down into Mexico, down into those areas down there as a kind of a quick escape route, if you will,&#8221; said Karl de la Guerra, an International Security Consultant, in an interview with The National News Desk Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But he and many others  also believe the warning was simply a reminder to stay vigilant,  that the threat level remains low. <\/p>\n<p>In a post online, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/2032118372901527884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said,<\/a>  \u201cthe tip was based on unverified intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have seen over the last few months in Venezuela, our capabilities at seaborne interdiction are very good.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s retaliatory  attacks thus far have been limited to regional targets an oil tanker in the Persian gulf, and U.S. bases nearby.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-war-trump-domestic-terror-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has touted the success <\/a>of the U.S. &#8211;  Israeli military campaign in destroying Iran&#8217;s Air force and Navy.<\/p>\n<p>But his Trump\u2019s former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan,  is warning a threat is real due to the large numbers of people who entered the country during the Biden administration, and were allowed to stay from 160 countries, including those known to sponsor terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and wait for Iran.. I&#8217;m not even worried about a drone coming from Mexico. I&#8217;m worried about somebody that&#8217;s already in here, that&#8217;s been let in here and is going to actually go to a local store and buy a drone themselves and do an attack within the United States from the United States,&#8221; said Morgan, in an interview with The National News Desk on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan is part of a new group called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/trump-deportations-immigration-poll-lobbying-00824245?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nrid=0000014e-f0ef-dd93-ad7f-f8ef35a50000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mass Deportation Coalition,<\/a> pushing  the Trump administration to refocus its efforts on deporting all eligible migrants, and not just violent criminals or the so-called &#8220;worst of the worst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While  Trump has acknowledged the possibility of sleeper cells inside the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBYABd-Ny-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he told reporters Wednesday<\/a> we know where most of the people are  adding we got our eyes on all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 On the West Coast of the United States, there has been an ongoing push for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-519888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}