{"id":2030129,"date":"2023-09-13T03:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-150-illegal-immigrants-on-terror-watchlist-apprehended-at-us-border-in-past-year\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T03:51:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:51:50","slug":"nearly-150-illegal-immigrants-on-terror-watchlist-apprehended-at-us-border-in-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-150-illegal-immigrants-on-terror-watchlist-apprehended-at-us-border-in-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 150 illegal immigrants on the terror watchlist were caught at the US border in the last year."},"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\">36<\/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%2Fnearly-150-illegal-immigrants-on-terror-watchlist-apprehended-at-us-border-in-past-year%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=2030129&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 data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered \u2063an alarming surge in immigrants with ties to terrorism attempting to cross the U.S.\u2013Mexico border illegally \u200cin the past fiscal year (FY).<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>According to CBP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/cbp-enforcement-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">figures<\/a>, \u200da \u200dtotal of 149 immigrants identified as known terrorists, \u200bsuspected terrorists,\u200c or associates \u2064of both were arrested after trying to enter the United States illegally. This includes a record-breaking\u200b number of 146 at\u2064 the \u200dsouthern border and three at the northern \u2062border.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This number is larger than the combined\u200b total of the last six years. Since 2017, border \u200bagents\u2063 have apprehended a total of 128 individuals on\u2062 the \u2063terrorist watchlist when they attempted to\u200c cross either \u2063the southern or northern border illegally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/illegal-immigrant-on-terror-watch-list-released-in-us-due-to-multiple-mistakes-dhs-report-shows-5376888\">Illegal Immigrant on Terror Watch List Released in\u2062 US Due to &#8216;Multiple Mistakes,&#8217; DHS Report Shows<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">7\/6\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/illegal-immigrant-on-terror-watch-list-released-in-us-due-to-multiple-mistakes-dhs-report-shows-5376888\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/border-patrol-apprehends-record-number-of-terror-watchlist-suspects-entering-country-5428105\">Border Patrol Apprehends Record Number of Terror Watchlist Suspects Entering \u200cCountry<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">7\/28\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/border-patrol-apprehends-record-number-of-terror-watchlist-suspects-entering-country-5428105\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Terrorist\u200c Screening\u2064 Dataset (TSDS)\u2014also known as the \u2062&#8221;watchlist&#8221;\u2014was \u2062established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America \u200bas a U.S. government database \u200cthat contains information on known or suspected terrorists (KSTs)\u2064 who are not U.S. citizens. \u200dHowever, the \u2064watchlist has expanded over the last decade to also include KST associates.<\/p>\n<p>As a comparison,\u200c CBP apprehended 98 individuals named on the\u200b terrorist \u2062watchlist in FY 2022. All of the 98 illegal immigrants were caught\u200c at the southern border. Between \u200dFY 2017\u200d to 2021, border agents only encountered\u200c 30 people on the watchlist attempting to cross either the\u2063 southern\u200d or northern border illegally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>In FY 2021, 15 immigrants named \u2064on the watchlist were apprehended when they \u2064tried to cross the \u200bsouthern border\u200d illegally, and just one\u2062 individual via the \u2062northern border.<\/p>\n<h2>Terrorist Threat Assessment<\/h2>\n<p>The noticeable increase in illegal border crossings of known\u2063 or suspected terrorists comes as illegal \u200dimmigration continues \u2063to \u2062be a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-delegation-calls-on-biden-to-address-border-crisis-traveling-to-texas-to-see-firsthand\/\" title=\"GOP delegation calls on Biden to address border crisis, traveling to Texas to see firsthand\">hot-button topic<\/a> that \u2063has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-150-illegal-immigrants-on-terror-watchlist-apprehended-at-us-border-in-past-year\/\" title=\"Around 150 illegal immigrants on the terror watchlist were caught at the US border in the last year.\">recently received considerable attention<\/a>\u200d and heated discussions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shortcode post-related-videos\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite the surge,\u200c the CBP&#8217;s website \u200dnotes\u2063 that &#8220;encounters of watchlisted individuals \u2062at our borders are very uncommon&#8221; and that the\u2064 149 encounters of people on\u2063 the watchlist make up \u200c0.0090 \u2062percent\u2063 of all \u2064FY 2023 \u2064border patrol \u2062encounters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mere fact that someone&#8217;s name is included\u2064 in the watchlist does\u2063 not necessarily mean that they are actually a\u200b terrorist,&#8221; said Thomas Warrick, a former deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The Associated Press reported. &#8220;The watchlist is, not surprisingly,\u200c broader\u2014and\u200c in some cases considerably broader\u2014than the number of actual\u200c terrorists \u2062at \u2062large in\u200d the\u200c world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b 149 encounters of individuals \u200bon \u2062the watchlist\u200b make\u200d up\u200b a small\u2064 percentage of all encounters reported by \u200bborder officials. According to the latest\u200d CBP figures, in the FY that ended Sept. 30, illegal immigrants were stopped 2.55 \u2063million times, down from 2.76 million\u200b times the year before.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>The annual\u2064 total \u2062surpassed two million for the first time in FY\u2063 2022 and is more\u2064 than twice the highest level during Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency in \u200b2019, or \u200ba\u2064 fivefold increase compared to 2017, when nearly 527,000 illegal immigrants were stopped\u2062 by border agents.<\/p>\n<h2>Republicans Seize on \u200dBiden&#8217;s Border Challenges<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Ted \u200cCruz (R-Texas), meanwhile, has criticized the \u2063Biden\u2063 administration \u200bfor allowing record-high numbers \u2064of illegal immigrants to travel freely to the \u200dUnited States via\u2063 the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-figure\" style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks on Title \u206442 immigration policy in Washington on May 3,\u200c 2023. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>On Sept. 11, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/america-mourns-honors-lives-lost-on-22th-anniversary-of-9-11-attacks-5489572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22nd \u2064anniversary<\/a> of the\u200d terrorist attacks on the \u2063Pentagon and World\u2062 Trade Center, Mr. Cruz suggested during an\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lawless-biden-plan-to-keep-every-illegal-alien-in-texas\/id1495601614?i=1000627438818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode<\/a> \u200c of his podcast\u2014&#8221;Verdict with\u2062 Ted Cruz&#8221;\u2014that another\u2063 terrorist attack could come from the southern \u2064border.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We have a vulnerability on our southern border, \u2063every month people are coming across\u2064 who are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-delegation-calls-on-biden-to-take-action-at-border\/\" title=\"GOP delegation calls on Biden to take action at border\">terror watch list<\/a>.\u200b The numbers dwarf the number of \u200cknown terrorists\u200b who would come in prior \u200bto Joe Biden,&#8221;\u2063 Mr. Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If \u2064you\u2019re the next planner of 9\/11, it\u2019s\u2062 obvious where you go. You go to\u2062 Mexico and you come\u200d right across and Joe Biden and the idiots in his administration will fly you to\u200d wherever you want to go in\u2062 this country and you can carry out your\u2063 terror attack,&#8221;\u200b the Texas Republican declared. &#8220;And sadly, every \u2063day that we have an open border \u2063under\u200b Joe Biden, \u2063the Democrats, the odds \u2064of another major\u2063 attack in this country, major \u200bterror attack, go up systematically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>In an\u200c interview with the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/9-11-anniversary-desantis-renewed-terrorism-threat-southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past fiscal year, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) faced an unprecedented situation as they apprehended 149 immigrants linked to the federal &#8220;Terrorist Watch List&#8221; attempting to illegally cross the U.S.\u2013Mexico border. These individuals were identified as known or suspected terrorists, or associates of both, according to CBP data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":2030130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}