An alleged illegal immigrant terrorist was working as a truck driver in the United States using a Pennsylvania-issued commercial driver’s license, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Monday.

Local authorities pulled over Uzbek national Akhror Bozorov, 31, on Nov. 9 when it was discovered that he had an Interpol warrant for allegedly distributing terrorist propaganda calling for jihad online and recruiting fellow terrorists, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire. Immigration and Customs Enforcement later took him into custody.

Bozorov crossed the California border illegally in 2023 and was swiftly released into the country when the Biden administration was pushing Border Patrol to move people out of custody as quickly as possible. His warrant was issued the year before he came to the United States, but border agents didn’t find any such red flags because they didn’t have enough time to properly vet him, sources said.

“Not only was Akhror Bozorov — a wanted terrorist — RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. This should go without saying, but terrorist illegal aliens should not be operating 18-wheelers on America’s highways,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Monday statement.

“Biden and Mayorkas allowed countless terrorists to come into our country. President Trump and Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to target these national security threats,” she added.

Under the Biden administration, ISIS-tied smuggling networks helped hundreds of illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries cross into the United States, CNN previously reported.

In 2024, the Biden administration handed Bozorov a work permit, which likely opened the door for his trucking license.

The Trump administration recently commenced a crackdown on states issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, with the worst offender being California, after a series of fatal collisions.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons recently issued a dire warning that the issue has increased the potential for a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

“We don’t know what they’re carrying across state lines in an 18-wheeler, terrorists will stop at nothing to harm the United States, and it is well within the realm of possibility that some of these trucks … could be carrying toxic chemicals, bombs, or God knows what,” Lyons said.

As Americans, we like to think our boys are tough and resilient. But online, they’re the most vulnerable — and the most overlooked.

The internet has become a digital trap for millions of young men and boys. The addictive features programmed into smartphones, social media, video games, and online pornography are intentionally designed to hook kids at an early age.

Boys are now spending significant amounts of time gaming, scrolling, and chatting on platforms that were never built for their safety.

In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination by suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, a Wall Street Journal columnist astutely noted, “Political violence is a problem. But so is the atomized culture in which young men retreat into confused inner worlds and virtual realities, which can be as addictive and destructive as any drug.”

Across America, young men are drifting into digital isolation — where algorithms, pornographers, sexual predators, and toxic role models, not parents or mentors, manipulate their mindsets and attitudes and ultimately shape who they become.

Those algorithms are now even more powerful. A Common Sense Media survey revealed that “algorithms, not user intent, are the primary driver of boys’ exposure to posts about masculinity; 68 percent of boys who see such material online say it started showing up in their feed without them searching for it.”

Toxic influencers online exploit boys searching for identity, feeding them anger, distorted ideas about women, and extreme behaviors amplified by social media algorithms.

Social media, video games, and online pornography are engineered for compulsion, addiction, and control. They hijack attention and reward obsession — and boys are the biggest consumers.

Violent video games can be especially problematic for boys, since they use the same first-person shooter technology used to train military and law enforcement to kill.

“Modern military and law enforcement training to adults with discipline makes killing a conditioned response. And it works … we know video games can do the same thing to our kids. The term I use is ‘murder simulators.’ The flight simulators teach you to fly — the murder simulators teach you to murder,” Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, one of the world’s foremost experts on human aggression, shared on my podcast.

According to Pew Research, 85% of U.S. teenagers play video games, with 67% of teen boys (compared to 22% of girls) playing daily. A UK report found that teenage boys (ages 15-17) spend almost 34 hours per week playing video games. Pew Research also indicates that 93% of boys ages 13-17, compared to 87% of girls, watch YouTube.

And when it comes to today’s online pornography, which often depicts violence against young women, the numbers are just as alarming. A national survey found 73% of teens 13–17 have seen pornography online, and more than half saw it by age 13. Adolescents who view this toxic content are more likely to engage in risky sexual activities or have anxiety and depression. Boys are far more likely to have sought it out intentionally.

The risks of any child or teen being online are not theoretical. Many parents who have lost children to social media challenges, like the TikTok “blackout challenge,” have said that their children were led into dangerous content by algorithmic design that favors engagement, extremes, and harmful viral trends.

As boys spend time gaming online or scrolling social media feeds alone, they are left wide open to manipulation.

The FBI has warned that global financial sextortion — predators posing as teen girls to lure boys into sending explicit photos, then blackmailing them — is one of the fastest-growing crimes targeting children, in particular minor-aged boys.

Tragically, dozens of boys have died by suicide after being trapped in these schemes. Gavin Guffey, 17, became a victim of online sextortion and sadly took his own life.

No parent should ever have to live through that nightmare.

Congress must start holding Big Tech accountable by passing the Kids Online Safety Act and other bipartisan legislation. Big Tech must ensure its products are designed with safety in mind, with default safety settings turned on, not off, and not as an afterthought once childhood innocence has been destroyed. The Department of Justice must start aggressively prosecuting the existing federal obscenity laws according to the 1997 Supreme Court ruling that determined “transmitting obscenity and child pornography, whether via the Internet or other means, is… illegal under federal law for both adults and juveniles.”

Ensuring our boys and young men are protected from harm must be a shared responsibility in which Congress, Big Tech, communities, and ultimately parents, each do their part.

Boys need fathers and mentors who model authentic masculinity — strength, responsibility, and courage. Positive role models can help them navigate the digital world and grow into men their families and our communities can rely on.

If we lose our boys to screens, to rage, counterfeit sexuality, or despair, we lose the next generation of American men. If we want strong men tomorrow, we must start protecting and guiding our boys today.

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Donna Rice Hughes, President and CEO of Enough Is Enough, is an internationally known internet safety expert, author, speaker, media commentator, producer, and host of the Emmy Award-winning PBS Internet Safety series and host of the podcast, “Internet Safety, with Donna Rice Hughes”. Under her leadership, EIE created the Internet Safety 101 Program in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.