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This is Muhammad Shahzeb Khan.

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He is the 20-year-old Pakistani man on a Canadian student visa who U.S. officials allegedly planned to head to New York City to slaughter Jews.

Now, the feds have growing concerns that the tidal wave of immigration unleashed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government could turn into a bloodbath in America.

Khan was given a Canadian student visa in June 2023. He now stands accused in U.S. federal court of plotting a mass shooting of Jews in the Big Apple to celebrate the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel.

The starry-eyed Pakistani dreamed that his alleged scheme would be “the largest U.S. attack since 9/11.”

“We are going to NYC to slaughter them so that we can slit their throats,” Khan allegedly told an undercover FBI agent he believed was a co-conspirator, adding “Even if we don’t attack an event, we could rack up easily a lot of Jews.”

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Khan was nabbed in Quebec just 18 kilometres from the U.S. border. He planned to meet a smuggler to get him over the St. Lawrence River and on his way to New York.

U.S. officials say Khan began plotting the massacre just months after arriving in Canada. He allegedly expected martyrdom and would use knives and semi-auto rifles.

Court records revealed: “[The attackers] to sacrifice oursel(ves) so that the . . . muslimeen can wakeup and support the State [i.e., the Islamic State, or ISIS].”

New York was chosen because of its large Jewish population.

On Wednesday, the New York Post featured a column by Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, lambasting the Trudeau government’s lax immigration policies that have triggered alarm bells in Canada — and Washington.

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“Khan’s [alleged] plan is only the latest in a series of six Canadian terror plots police have foiled just since October 7, some of which involved recent immigrants the Trudeau government brought in and vetting failures,” Bensman wrote.

“Even though the other plots happened in Canada, they still place the United States in harm’s way and justify a new and robust U.S. diplomatic pressure campaign to force change on both sides.”

He noted the “typically egregious example” of the RCMP arrest in July of alleged father-son terror tag team Egyptian Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his 26-year-old son Mostafa Eldidi for an alleged “advanced-stage plot” to carry out a “violent, serious attack” in Toronto.

Sources told the Toronto Sun at the time of the arrests that the pair allegedly had the Jewish community in mind.

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Eldidi the elder arrived in Canada in 2018 and received his citizenship in May — even though he had been flagged as a security threat. Officials said evidence revealed that he battered an ISIS prisoner in Iraq in 2015. The incident was posted online by the death cult.

Ironically, the scion studied at an Iowa university on a student visa — after Canada denied his student application. He asked for asylum in Canada in 2020.

Of course, the Trudeau government gave him the green light.

“The government’s reaction has been tepid; in the wake of the U.S. border-crossing plot involving an immigrant student, the Trudeau government says it will reduce those visas from 400,000 to a still-record-breaking 360,000 next year,” Bensman wrote.

Especially worrying now to American officials on both sides of the political divide was the Trudeau government’s announcement in May that it would up the number of Gazans allowed into the country.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and five other Republican senators sent a letter of objection requesting “heightened scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security should any of them attempt to enter the United States at ports of entry as well as between ports of entry.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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