23 People on Terrorist Watch List Stopped at Southern Border in 2021
Customs and Border Protection data from last year show that the Border Patrol apprehended at least 23 people at the southern border who are on the U.S. terror watchlist.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin, who obtained the CBP data through a Freedom of Information Act request, reported Monday that between Jan. 20 and Dec. 27, 2021, the names of 23 individuals who attempted to come across the border matched individuals on the Terrorist Screening Database.
The TSDB is a compilation of information about individuals who are either known or “reasonably suspected” of being involved in some sort of terrorism.
The 23 terrorism suspect encounters were scattered across the Arizona, California and Texas sections of the border.
Four were found in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, four in the Del Rio Sector, three in the El Paso Sector, two in Tuscon Sector, two in the Yuma Sector, another four in El Centro Sector and four in San Diego Sector, Fox News reported.
Melugin noted on Twitter that those are just the ones who were caught. – READ MORE
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