The Muslim terror attacks on America over the weekend – the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the stabbing attack on innocent passersby in a St. Cloud, Minnesota, mall – are highlighting a whole new danger posed by the federal government's immigration policies, as well as the current "refugee" program which seeks out and admits tens of thousands of Muslims from places such as Afghanistan and Somalia.

Both of the suspects – the Minnesota attacker was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer, and the New York suspect was arrested on Monday – were Muslim immigrants who had been living in the United States for years.

The attacks came just a week after the 15-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror strikes.

Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND's Email News Alerts!

TRENDING: 'Greater shakings': Jonathan Cahn foresaw 2020 trouble, warns of even more

In Minnesota on Saturday, Dahir A. Adan, 22, described by the London Sun as a "Somalian 'soldier of the Islamic State'" who came to America from Africa with his family 15 years ago, was dressed as a private security guard when he carried out a knife attack in a St. Cloud mall.

FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Rick Thornton has said it is being investigated as a "potential act of terrorism."

Nine people, ages 15 to 53, were left injured in the attack. Adan reportedly made a reference to "Allah" and he asked victims if they were Muslim, and slashed and stabbed them if they said they were not. He attended St. Cloud State University and is of Somali descent. He was hit by gunfire and fell down twice, only to get up each time, before he was fatally wounded by shots from Jason Falconer, an officer of the nearby Avon Police Department, who opened fire as the attacker lunged toward him.

"We haven't uncovered anything that would suggest other than a lone attacker at this point," St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said at a news conference with Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton. "If that changes, we will be transparent about that."

Get "See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad," by former DHS officer Philip Haney and WND Editor Art Moore, now at the WND Superstore!

An ISIS propaganda channel almost immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The man wanted for the New York and New Jersey bombings, Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, originally hailed from Afghanistan, but had been in the United States long enough for his family to purchase and operate a restaurant for a number of years.

Special U.S. programs seeking to help "refugees" have imported a multitude of individuals from both Somalia and Afghanistan over the years.

Rahami was shot and injured as he was being taken into custody Monday morning in Linden, New Jersey.

Reports said he was found sleeping at the door to a bar, and he started shooting when police arrived.

He apparently was hit in the shoulder and taken from the scene in an ambulance.

He was wanted for questioning in the attacks over the weekend in New York City, where a pressure-cooker bomb detonated Saturday in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan hurt 29 people.

Another bomb was found a few blocks away.

Earlier Saturday, a pipe bomb went off in Seaside Park, New Jersey, but no one was injured.

What do YOU think? Who's right on terror: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Sound off in today's WND poll

The London Daily Mail reported that he and other family members had been in a long-running legal battle in New Jersey, where the Afghans who turned to America for a livelihood had accused police of racially abusing them because of their Middle Eastern heritage. They lost the case.

The Associated Press reported on Monday the federal government "mistakenly" granted citizenship to 858 immigrants "from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security."

And another report on Monday from CNS News pointed out some 100,000 Somali residents have been brought to the United States since 9/11, including about 8,600 this year.

The largest portion, one out of seven, of the nearly 100 percent Muslim group has been delivered to Minnesota.

"Of the 97,046 Somali refugees admitted to the U.S. since the fall of 2001, 99.6 percent were Muslim, and 28,836 (29.7 percent) were males between the ages of 14 and 50. In FY 2015 Somalis were the third largest contingent of refugees admitted to the U.S. – 8,858, or 12.6 percent of the total from around the world. Only Burma, with 26.3 percent, and Iraq, with 18.1 percent, accounted for larger groups of refugees arriving in the country," the report said.

The report said the Minnesota Somali community "has long grappled with the problem of radicalization among some of its youth."

Previously, several dozen individuals from the community have traveled to Somalia to engage in jihad with al-Shabaab, an organization linked to al-Qaida.

They are part of the quarter million or so "refugees" allowed into the United States each year, WND previously reported.

Nationwide, an earlier Breitbart report found, the U.S. resettled 1.5 million Muslim immigrants from 2001 to 2013, many through refugee programs that provide privileges for the newcomers to America.

Not only is that a recipe for a major demographic shift, but it also is clear that some who already are in the U.S. are potential terror threats.

In "Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance," renowned activist Pamela Geller provides the answer, offering proven, practical guidance on how freedom lovers can stop jihadist initiatives in local communities.

The Senate Immigration Subcommittee has noted the potential for terror associated with the rapid rise in Muslim influence in America.

Its finding include: "A college student [was] voluntarily admitted from Somalia 'who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon,'" and "An immigrant [was] voluntarily admitted from Sudan 'who applied for an received U.S. citizenship tried to join ISIS and wage jihad on its behalf after having been recruited online,'" Breitbart reported.

WND has reported dozens of additional cases in which Muslim refugees have run afoul of the law, including a Somali taxi driver in northern Virginia who was named the FBI's newest "most wanted terrorist" in January after he allegedly served as a recruiter for al-Shabab and al-Qaida, and fled to Somalia to avoid arrest. Also, six Somali men from refugee families living in Minnesota were arrested in April after they repeatedly tried to board planes for Turkey where they planned to join ISIS. WND reported an Uzbek refugee who resettled in Boise, Idaho, was convicted of trying to assemble bombs in his apartment to blow up U.S. military installations.

In fact, 72 cases in just the last year have been documented by the Senate immigration committee headed by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in which likely Muslim immigrants have been arrested for terrorist activity.

The situation also may be aggravated by the cultural and societal variables that make it hard for those from societies such as Somali's Muslim community to assimilate into America.

WND reported earlier this summer that a mob of up to 30 young Somali men paraded through one of Minneapolis' upscale neighborhoods, yelling disparaging comments and threats against homeowners.

The result? Silence from the federal agencies responsible for the influx.

A female resident of the neighborhood said a Somali man screaming at her, threatening to kidnap and rape her.

"They were screaming at the house that they were going to kidnap you and they were going to rape you," one Minneapolis resident told KSTP-TV. "It was a very traumatizing experience."

Somalis living in Minneapolis are almost all Sunni Muslims, and residents of the Lake Calhoun area say it isn't the first time a group of Somali men has made an intimidating march through their neighborhood, which is filled with million-dollar homes.

No hate-crime charges are apparently being considered by either the Minnesota authorities or the Obama Justice Department headed by Loretta Lynch.

Police were called to the scene on June 28 and were investigating the incident as a potential case of terrorist threats. No arrests have been made, and the Minneapolis media appear to be largely uninterested in reporting on the mob threats.

According to a Minneapolis police report, between 20 and 30 young Somali men showed up in front of a woman's house in the morning and started shouting insults.

"The comments turned to threats," the report said.

Watch local TV report of horrific threats made by a mob of young Somali men in Minneapolis:

Nearly all Somalis living in Minnesota are either refugees or children of refugees. They form a burgeoning Muslim enclave created by the U.S. government's long-term refugee policy.

The U.S. State Department, working with the United Nations, has permanently resettled more than 132,000 Somali ''refugees" into dozens of American cities since 1983, according to federal data collected by the State Department.

Get "See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad," by former DHS officer Philip Haney and WND Editor Art Moore, now at the WND Superstore!

Other Somali Muslims have been moved into Columbus, Ohio; San Diego; Seattle; Atlanta; Maine; Texas; North Dakota; Tennessee; and even Alaska. The "refugees" have come from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Uzbekistan and other jihadist outposts.

It wasn't long ago that Pamela Geller, WND columnist, addressed the issue.

She was promoting a congressional plan that "would immediately suspend Obama's disastrous and dangerous refugee resettlement program pending a complete review."

She quoted Rep. Brian Babi, who said: "It is extremely unsettling that the Obama administration would continue to expand the U.S. resettlement program at such an irresponsible pace in light of our economic and national security challenges. While this program may be warranted in certain situations, it is continuing at an unchecked pace. For the past decade the U.S. has been admitting roughly 70,000 new refugees a year, with little understanding of the economic and social costs on our communities."

Geller said: "The social costs are incalculable. Obama has been importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims under the Refugee Resettlement Program. Despite the spike in jihad plots and attacks in the U.S. and the genocide of non-Muslims under Shariah, Obama remains unmoved. Under Obama, it's a world where arrogance rules."

She pointed out the emphasis by the Obama administration to get Muslim refugees.

"The real victims of the global jihad are the Christians and religious minorities. They are not being offered refuge or asylum here in the U.S., or are held up by unspecified red tape. Obama is not bringing in persecuted Christians ('Christians, what Christians?'), Jews, Bahais, etc.; instead, he is bringing in hundreds of thousands of Muslims. The only refugees we should be resettling from the war-torn Middle East are those Christians and others who have been driven out of their homes by Islamic jihadists, or managed to escape before they were enslaved or massacred. Instead, the United States stands by while they are ethnically cleansed from their ancient homelands," she wrote.