{"id":1445304,"date":"2022-04-19T07:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445304"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:46:59","slug":"23-suspected-terrorists-were-stopped-on-the-southern-border-in-2021-how-many-werent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/23-suspected-terrorists-were-stopped-on-the-southern-border-in-2021-how-many-werent\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Suspected Terrorists Were Stopped On The Southern Border In 2021. How Many Weren\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F23-suspected-terrorists-were-stopped-on-the-southern-border-in-2021-how-many-werent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/32276408246_bcab90795b_k-e1650325855254.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Federal law enforcement caught at least 23 suspected terrorists crossing the southern border last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/border-patrol-people-terrorist-database-southern-border-2021-cbp-data\">according<\/a> to documents revealed exclusively by Fox News and published Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The 23 individuals were named on the terror watchlist, including four in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, four in the Del Rio Sector, four in the El Centro Sector, four in the San Diego Sector, three in the El Paso Sector, two in the Tuscon Sector, and two in the Yuma Sector, according to Fox News based on records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about\/leadership-and-structure\/national-security-branch\/tsc\">Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)<\/a> is a government record to maintain information related to those who are known or \u201creasonably suspected\u201d of engagement in terrorist activity. Most individuals listed are foreign nationals with no connection to the United States, according to the FBI, which doesn\u2019t confirm individuals\u2019 status on the list. Republicans, however, have made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-republicans-biden-admin-information-migrants-terrorist-database\">repeated demands<\/a> the Biden administration disclose how many on the list have been apprehended at the border. <\/p>\n<p>In August, retiring U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/16\/border-patrol-chief-suspected-terrorists-are-crossing-u-s-border-at-levels-never-seen-before\/\">warned<\/a> his 19,000 agents that known or suspected terrorists were entering the United States \u201cat a level we have never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver and over again, I see other people talk about our mission, your mission, and the context of it being immigration or the current crisis today being an immigration crisis,\u201d said Scott. \u201cI firmly believe that it is a national security crisis. Immigration is just a subcomponent of it, and right, now it\u2019s just a cover for massive amounts of smuggling going across the southwest border \u2014 to include TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That\u2019s a real threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, eight House Republicans led by Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona on the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/04\/the-biden-admin-released-a-suspected-terrorist-into-the-united-states-after-he-illegally-crossed-the-border\/\">demanded hearings<\/a> about the release of a suspected terrorist who swam across the Rio Grande River. <\/p>\n<p>Lebanon-born Venezuelan Issam Bazzi was <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/Report-ICE-Releases-BorderCrossing-Terrorist-Suspect-Venezuela-Despite-FBI-Recommendation\">reportedly released<\/a> by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite being listed on the FBI terrorism database. Citing \u201chighly derogatory information,\u201d the FBI worried Bazzi posed a flight risk and recommended detention. Leaked documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) however, show Bazzi was released from custody to pursue asylum in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no known case in which a foreign national who pinged on a terror watch list was simply released on his own recognizance,\u201d lawmakers wrote in February month demanding a hearing from their Democrat colleagues. \u201cThe facts in the case strongly suggest that the Biden Administration failed to follow appropriate protocols with respect to suspected terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After President Joe Biden\u2019s border crisis erupted last spring with arrests at an all-time record, Federalist Senior Editor John Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/27\/left-unchecked-bidens-border-crisis-will-become-the-new-normal\/\">warned<\/a> in October, \u201cLeft Unchecked, Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Will Become The New Normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever before have federal authorities made so many arrests at the southwest border,\u201d Davidson wrote after agents arrested 1,659,206 in the fiscal year. \u201cThis year topped the previous record in 2000 by about 15,000 illegal immigrants, marking a new milestone in what has become the dreary annals of America\u2019s porous and crisis-stricken border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/62000-illegal-immigrants-border-patrol-agents-march\">According<\/a> to Fox News, more than 62,000 illegal immigrants, an average of 2,000 per day,  evaded law enforcement while entering the country in March. More than 300,000 others have already been declared \u201cgotaways,\u201d or \u201cmigrants who escaped capture by border patrol since the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law enforcement caught at least 23 suspected terrorists crossing the southern border last year, according to documents revealed exclusively by Fox News and published Monday. 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