70 on FBI Terror Watchlist Arrested at US-Mexico Border

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70 Migrants on Terrorist Watch List Apprehended this Year After Crossing Border

Border Patrol agents along the Mexican and Canadian borders apprehended 70 migrants who crossed between ports of entry so far this fiscal year. This compares to the record-shattering apprehensions last year of 98 migrants on the FBI’s list for the entire FY22. The five-month total also exceeds all four years of the Trump administration combined.

By: Bob Price, Breitbart News, march 19, 2023:

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A CBP Enforcement Statistics report published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection reveals the apprehension of 70 migrants listed on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS) watch list. The five-month total included 69 apprehended along the southwest border with Mexico between October 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023. The remaining apprehension took place along the Canadian border with the U.S.

“TSDS watchlisted individuals encountered by the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) after entering the country without inspection may be detained and removed, to the extent possible under CBP policy, or turned over to another government agency for subsequent detention or law enforcement action, as appropriate,” CBP officials reported. “The TSDS originated as the consolidated terrorist watchlist to house information on known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) but has evolved over the last decade to include additional individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watchlisted individuals.”

The number of migrants apprehended who appear on the TSDS watch list has grown exponentially during the Biden administration. During the four years of the Trump administration, Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 14 migrants who were TSDS listed. The next year, following changes made by the Biden administration to immigration and border security policies, that number jumped to 16 for a single year. This was followed by a massive jump in FY22 to 98 TSDS migrant apprehensions.

This year’s report showing the apprehension of 70 TSDS-listed migrants in five months puts the administration on pace to shatter the record once again in FY23.

CBP officers assigned to the ports of entry along the southwest and Canadian borders also set a record in FY22 with 380 TSDS-listed migrants attempting to enter the U.S. So far this year, CBP officers encountered 214 more migrants on the terrorist watch list at border ports of entry.

Migrants on the TSDS watchlist are but a fraction of the number of nationwide encounters with people on the known or suspected terrorist list. In September 2016, Breitbart Texas’ Director Brandon Darby published information from a leaked FBI database showing that 7,712 potential terrorist encounters took place in one year.

16 on FBI terror watchlist arrested at US-Mexico border in February

By: American Military News, March 20, 2023:

Border Patrol agents encountered 16 people registered on the FBI’s terrorist watch list illegally crossing the southern border in February — and appear set to encounter more this fiscal year than they did in the last.

Customs and Border Protection data says a total of 69 people on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database have been encountered at the southern border since the fiscal year began in October, compared to a total of 69 across the previous fiscal year, Fox News reported.

READ MORE: US citizen mom of 7 kidnapped in Mexico; FBI offering reward

Department of Homeland Security defines an “encounter” as when a non-citizen is arrested or deemed inadmissible by border officials. Apprehensions may or may not result in arrest, according to CPB.

Between the 2017 and 2020 fiscal years, CBP data shows 11 arrests of people on the terror watch list trying to illegally cross the southern border.

The terror watch list arrests were only a few of the 128,877 people encountered trying to illegally cross the southern border in February, according to a CBP press release.

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Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
1 year ago

Biden, Harris and Mayorkas need to be arrested — Today!
And tried and hanged for High Treason against the United States.

JoeyJ
JoeyJ
1 year ago

No worries. These guys will be:

1) Put up in the closest Hilton.
2) Given a new car.
3) Given a gun (confiscated from a law-abiding citizen) so they’ll be no cost.
4) Enrolled in Obamacare, Medicare, etc.
5) Automatically have any and all charges dismissed.
6) Receive a letter of apology from the government for causing them any inconvenience at the border.

Kinda makes you proud to be an American.

HardrockD
Hardrock
1 year ago
Reply to  JoeyJ

In Canada we cut convicted terrorists cheques for ten plus million dollars.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Sure that many more got in the country that were not apprehended.

Staff Sgt
Staff Sgt
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

Yup you know it. More probably also came in that the authorities let in!

PatDD
PatD
1 year ago

Quit calling them migrants!!!! They are all invading illegal criminals!!!!

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago
Reply to  PatD

They are Illegal Criminal Aliens. As soon as they crossed the border Illegally, they became criminals.

George
George
1 year ago
Reply to  PatD

Breitbart are notorious for using the leftist term “migrants”. They have received tens of thousands of complaints but insist on bending over fir the politically correct language manipulators. The correct term is criminal invader.

Mr tibbs
Mr tibbs
1 year ago

Arab Muslims pretend to be Christian. Change their names to italuan. Egyptian. Anglo white names but skin color shows up. Be aware people. Islamisation. Jihadee supporters.

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
1 year ago

That “No secure border policy” of Joe Biden and his leftist’s political comrades are totally disaster for many reasons.

It was discovered that twenty – three Muslim terrorists just captured crossing the Mexican/US border that really be a wakeup call. Before that, a jihadist who was captured who had originally come from Saudi Arabia, earlier yet; two Iranian jihad operatives had also been captured. This list could go on but

Therefore, there is a great need for a good for a good border control system with a strong tall wall that’s patrolled by armed American military soldiers who may be allowed to use their guns if they deem it necessary. Along with a good filtering system to let in to the United States only good decent hard working people with visas and not and not jihadists as of ISIS and Al Qaeda and gangsters as those of MS-13.

In result of Biden’s porous borders policy will that he will have the blood of many good, decent American citizens across the United States on his wicked vile hands.

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