Border agents arrest 16 people on FBI’s terror watchlist
US Border Patrol agents stopped 16 people on the FBI’s terror watch list who illegally crossed into the country from Mexico, authorities said this week — with new data showing border arrests this year are on pace to surpass 2022’s record.
Last month, agents at the southern border stopped 16 people who were on the FBI’s terror watch list, CBP said. The number has jumped considerably compared to 157 in the fiscal year 2021 and 196 in the fiscal year 2020. Between 2017 and 2020 there were eight terror watch-list arrests between ports of entry and in 2021 there were only 15.
Migrants encountered on the Terrorist Screening Database are only a small fraction of the overall number of migrants — more than 150,000 in February — stopped at the US border. With the database numbers in mind, Republicans have urged Biden to better secure the border.in fiscal 2021 but was less than the 500,000 arrests in 2020 and nearly 1 million in 2019. So far, 2023 is set to outpace that record, with over 762,000 Southwest border apprehensions recorded by CBP through January.
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