Joe Biden’s open border has led to the apprehension of the highest number of terrorists or suspected terrorists on the FBI’s terror watch list.
That number has skyrocketed since 2021 when Biden first came into office:
DC EXAMINER – Border Patrol caught more than 172 known or suspected terrorists illegally entering the United States from Mexico or Canada over the past 12 months, finishing out the government’s fiscal year with the highest number in national history, according to new data released Saturday.
The figure is a far cry from single-digit terror watch list numbers seen throughout the Trump administration. The dramatic increase to double and now triple-digits over the past several years has especially drawn concern from Democratic and Republican lawmakers as violence grows in the Middle East.
Of roughly 2,037,000 arrests at the southern border between October 2022 and September 2023, federal law enforcement agents determined 172 were on the Federal Bureau of Investigation terror watch list, also known as the Terrorist Screening Database. The database is separate from the No-Fly list and it contains thousands of names of individuals who are themselves involved with a terrorist group or are related to or associated with someone involved in terrorism.
The 172 figure surpassed the previous record of 98 people in 2022 and 16 people in 2021, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The Border Patrol was established in 1924 and this year’s arrests surpassed all others on record.
Of all arrests, 169 occurred at the southern border compared to three on the U.S.-Canada border.
The media continues to run interference for Biden’s open border but the numbers speak for themselves. And I’ll point out as I always do, that the Border Patrol doesn’t catch gotaways and therefore we don’t really know how many terrorists have entered the country across Biden’s open border.