https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10929211/CBP-arrested-50-migrants-terror-watch-list-far-year.html

Revealed: 50 illegal migrants on terror

watch list have been caught at the border

so far this year - more than total number

apprehended in last five years Combined

Daily Mail (UK), by Keith Griffith

Posted By: Imright, 6/18/2022 3:05:27 AM

More illegal immigrants on a terror watch lift have been caught crossing the southern border so-far this year than during the last five years combined, figures reveal. Since the fiscal year began in October, 50 migrants who appeared in the federal Terrorist Screening Dataset have been intercepted while trying to cross into the US between official checkpoints at the southern border, according to Customs and Border Patrol statistics. That's up from just 15 for the 2021 fiscal year, three in 2020, none in 2019, six in 2018 and two in 2017 according to the enforcement statistics data released on Wednesday by CBP. It comes as overall illegal border crossings surge