Border Patrol agents nab a dozen people on terror watchlist at southern border in August (78 total so far this fiscal year)

Fox News via MSN ^ | 9/20/22 | Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin

[Libloather]

Border Patrol stopped a dozen individuals whose names are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) in August, bringing the total for the fiscal year to a number that is triple the previous five fiscal years combined – as agents deal with a historic migrant surge at the border.

New data released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week show that there were 12 individuals encountered by Border Patrol between ports of entry at the border whose names matched on the TSDB – which contains information about the identities of those who are known or "reasonably suspected" of being involved in terrorist activities.

August’s apprehensions bring the total for FY 22 to 78 so far, with two months still to go in the fiscal year. That is triple the prior five years combined. There were two arrests in FY17, six in FY18, zero in FY 19, three in FY20 and 15 in FY21.

While that is just a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who hit the border each month, and it shows those who have been successfully caught by Border Patrol agents, it also does not include those who may have been among the over 500,000 gotaways – illegal immigrants who slipped past Border Patrol agents – this fiscal year.

Republicans have pointed to the numbers to show the potential national security threat at the border and the need for greater border security. Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee had pushed for the numbers to again be made public before the Biden administration eventually started putting them on the CBP website in May.

Meanwhile, there have so far been 342 encounters of known or suspected terrorists by CBP agents at ports of entry along the north and southern borders.

[Libloather]

Mostly secure. Czar Horizontal is on the case.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

There are terrorist cells and weapons caches all over the USA, just waiting for the signal.

There is no doubt in my Military Mind. :(

[Mark]

Mostly peaceful terrorists.

[Cobra64]

Yup. There will be a Day of Wrath when thousands of terrorist cells are activated all over America with snipers on every overpass taking out cars and trucks, halting traffic, murdering millions fleeing. Hundreds of truckloads of fentanyl will be dumped into our reservoirs and thousands of forest fires lit all over our landscapes.

Then democrats will insist on paying reparations to ISIS to stop the slaughter.

All this in less than 24 hours. And no one has a clue.

[Cobra64]

Yup. There will be a Day of Wrath when thousands of terrorist cells are activated all over America with snipers on every overpass taking out cars and trucks, halting traffic, murdering millions fleeing. Hundreds of truckloads of fentanyl will be dumped into our reservoirs and thousands of forest fires lit all over our landscapes.

Then democrats will insist on paying reparations to ISIS to stop the slaughter.

All this in less than 24 hours. And no one has a clue.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. And you and I are just, ‘paranoid.’ *Rolleyes*

[FlingWingFlyer]

Time to do a lawsuit against the Feral commie RATS for trafficking foreign terrorists into the United States.

[Texas resident]

It appears that biden admin is setting the table for all this to happen. And when it does, they well sic their federal law enforcement on us.