The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday issued a warning about a so-called “heightened threat environment” ahead of the holiday season in the United States.
“Our homeland continues to face a heightened threat environment—as we have seen, tragically, in recent acts of targeted violence—and is driven by violent extremists seeking to further a political or social goal or act on a grievance,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.
Faith-based institutions, government buildings, U.S. infrastructure, schools, and public gatherings could be targeted by groups of people or lone actors who might have “a range of ideological beliefs” and “personal grievances” in the coming weeks and months, warned the DHS’s National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin on Wednesday….