Hey mental midget, read this “Border Patrol apprehensions of individuals on the FBI's terrorism watchlist have increased sharply in recent years as the number of overall crossings recorded by the agency along the U.S.-Mexico border has soared to record levels.” From cbs moron.
As is typical with the bullshit wingnuts come up with its right off Stupid TV and conspiracy sites. You ignorant fools will believe anything. Read the part where Orange Turd's claims were contradicted by his State Department.
The watchlist
In an
FAQ, the FBI says that anyone they suspect to be “involved in terrorist activities” could be on the terror watch list. A DHS official told CNN “one should not immediately conclude” why someone is on the watch list.
Most individuals flagged by the watch list attempt to enter the US
on planes. Encountering a very small number on the border who are on the terrorist watch list is not unique to the Biden administration.
Individuals on the terror watch list were encountered at the US southern border by federal agents
during President Donald Trump’s time in office. Furthermore, the number of these individuals encountered at the border in a given year is extremely small and is a
very small percentage of the total known or suspected terrorists who try to enter or travel to the US annually.
In January 2019, CNN
reported that roughly a dozen non-US citizens who were on the terror watch list had been encountered on the US southern border by federal officers from October 2017 to October 2018, according to an administration official familiar with CBP data.
Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told CNN that most years the number of those undocumented immigrants on the terror watch list encountered at the southern border “is in the low single digits.”
“The numbers are so small it’s hard to say anything statistically significant about them,” Nowrasteh said, noting additionally that not a single American has “been killed by an illegal immigrant in a terrorist attack on US soil – that hasn’t happened.”
Previous allegations
Republican allegations of terrorists crossing the US southern border are not new.
Amid a wave of migration in January 2019, Trump claimed “we have terrorists coming through the southern border because they find that’s probably the easiest place to come through. They drive right in and they make a left.”
But the then-President’s claims of terrorists coming through Mexico were contradicted by his own State Department.
A
report from the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism found that “(i)n 2019, there was no credible evidence indicating international terrorist groups established bases in Mexico, worked directly with Mexican drug cartels, or sent operatives via Mexico into the United States.”
CNN’s Geneva Sands contributed to this article.
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