As hundreds of thousands of migrants continue to pour across the U.S. southern border every month, U.S. lawmakers and others are concerned that terrorists and other bad actors who intend to harm U.S. citizens are among them.
So far this year 169 individuals with positive terrorism watchlist matches were caught trying to cross the southern border into the United States, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said in a press release last week. Of course, that number doesn’t include others who may have slipped through unnoticed.
Capito, a member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said the exact affiliations and identities of those 169 individuals apprehended at the southern border remain classified. She said the number of individuals on the U.S. terror watchlist who tried to cross the border so far this year is a “tenfold increase” from the fiscal year 2021 numbers.
Capito and a group of Republican lawmakers led by Indiana U.S. Sen. Todd Young announced they were sending a letter to President Joe Biden demanding action at the southern border due to the rise in terrorist crossings.
“Our southern border is a matter of deep national concern and insecurity,” the lawmakers wrote. “With rising violence and economic crises
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