Said Jama Ahmed might not be walking the plank, but the Somali pirate definitely needs to be shipped out of our country.
Ahmed, in fact, has a history with the U.S. military and federal immigration enforcement, as the Navy caught him committing piracy in the Gulf of Aden back in 2012, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) later caught him here in 2024 after he illegally entered our country. It appears authorities removed him, but he returned to try to enter America from the north instead of the south. Apparently, piracy wasn't the lucrative profession he thought it would be, so he decided to sneak into our country and rob American taxpayers instead.
Of course, Ahmed was able to reside in the U.S. for some two years the first time he entered, because it was during the Biden-Harris era of total immigration anarchy. Why go to all the trouble of chasing down and commandeering ships when you can get all kinds of freebies in the U.S. just for breaking the law?
Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated in an April 24 press release, “Weak Biden Administration border policies allowed this illegal alien to enter and remain in the country despite his multiple law enforcement encounters. We are thankful for our hardworking U.S. CBP officers and Canadian officials for their cooperation in arresting this individual. DHS will continue to work to arrest criminal illegal aliens to protect the American homeland from all threats.”
The first time Ahmed entered the USA, it was near San Luis, Ariz., in late 2022. ICE agents were executing a warrant search for fraud documents in 2024 when they caught and detained him. In April 2025, officials issued an extradition warrant. But by this April, he was already back.
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U.S. officials already had Ahmed in their system even before the illegal entry. The DHS press release explained:
Ahmed has a long record of United States military and law enforcement encounters. On March 10, 2012, the U.S.S. Halsey responded to a distress call from an Indian-flagged ship reporting that pirates had hijacked it in the Gulf of Aden.
A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team conducted boarding operations and encountered Ahmed and nine other armed pirates who had taken the Indian ship hostage by force, where the Navy then logged Ahmed’s fingerprint.
Fast forward to April 14, when an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer spotted the Somali alien walking southbound — i.e., toward the nearby U.S.-Canadian border — with a backpack. The officer guessed where Ahmed and his backpack were headed and made his report.
U.S. Border Patrol was on the lookout when Ahmed reached the border. Two hours after the RCMP officer made his report, a U.S. Border Patrol agent caught sight of Ahmed and confronted him. Customs and Border Protection quickly placed the Somali pirate in custody. Border Patrol has Ahmed in custody in the District of North Dakota at the present time.
DHS added:
Said Jama Ahmed[ is] an illegal alien from Somalia, who faces an outstanding arrest warrant for violations of falsely making, using, and forging a passport and for a positive fingerprint match to a 2012 national security threat with ties to Somali piracy.
Hopefully, this pirate won't be terrorizing either the land or the seas for a long time.
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