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Bustamante warns that the same techniques used by foreign spies and criminal syndicates to infiltrate other nations are equally applicable within the United States. These actors include state-sponsored agents (from Russia, China, Iran) and clandestine organizations like terrorists, weapons proliferators, and human traffickers. Many of these entities seek to leverage America’s freedoms—like student visas or asylum systems—to embed assets, gather intelligence, or plan large-scale disruptive acts.