Border Patrol agents arrested more illegal immigrants on terrorist watch lists between October and January than from 2017 to 2021 combined., According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data updated Tuesday.
Border Patrol arrested 59 illegal immigrants on national terror watch lists in four months. according to to federal data. From fiscal year 2017 to fiscal year 2021, the Border Patrol arrested 30 people whose names were on the watch list.
The number of immigrants arrested on the Border Patrol's terrorist watch list rose to 172 in 2023 and 98 in 2022. (Related: Exclusive: Federal authorities crack down on prison gang members previously deported on suspicion of drunk driving)
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – January 31: A migrant gets caught in razor wire as he crosses the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on January 31, 2024. Texas National Guard trying to unravel. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported that immigrants on terrorist watch lists are illegally crossing the southern border.
Border Patrol arrested an Afghan national on a terrorist watch list on February 5 for illegally crossing the southern border into California, according to an internal federal memo obtained exclusively by DCNF. In January, ICE agents in Minnesota arrested a member of the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab who illegally crossed the southern border after authorities released him.
Border Patrol agents on February 6 arrested a person who illegally crossed the southern border and admitted past ties to a Colombian terrorist organization, according to an internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) memo. obtained By DCNF.
Federal authorities released a Pakistani national who illegally crossed the southern border into California in November for one day while his name was on a terrorist watch list, according to an ICE memo reviewed by the DCNF.
According to an internal memo obtained exclusively by DCNF, federal officials also warned Border Patrol agents after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel that terrorists from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah could illegally cross the southern border. He warned them to be careful.
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