160 people on the terror watch list stopped at US border in 2023— the highest number ever

[DigitalDrifter]

The asylum laws are being gamed. People who are coming for economic reasons claim asylum and are allowed to walk in and stay for years while waiting for their case to be heard. This mess will never end until the asylum laws are changed. Have you contacted your lawmakers?

Federal law enforcement stopped 160 people listed on the terror watch list from entering the US illegally at America’s borders this fiscal year — the highest number ever — government statistics reveal.

The worrying number is a huge increase on the 98 of potentially dangerous assailants nabbed last year as thousands of people continue to flood into the country both legally and illegally, often with little to show by way of identifying papers.

MSN

 

[konradv]

The asylum laws are being gamed. People who are coming for economic reasons claim asylum and are allowed to walk in and stay for years while waiting for their case to be heard. This mess will never end until the asylum laws are changed. Have you contacted your lawmakers?

MSN

Highest number ever sounds like better enforcement. If Trump’s numbers were lower, why isn’t he being blamed?

 

[1srelluc]

Yep, they cut a bunch of Pakis loose into the country yesterday.

 

[Independentthinker]

The asylum laws are being gamed. People who are coming for economic reasons claim asylum and are allowed to walk in and stay for years while waiting for their case to be heard. This mess will never end until the asylum laws are changed. Have you contacted your lawmakers?

MSN

This doesn't even take into account the ones who slipped through that we don't know about.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

This doesn't even take into account the ones who slipped through that we don't know about.

Not just that, but were any of these 160 actually detained and/or deported and/or arrested or held?? Or were they let loose into the country?

 

[yidnar]

Highest number ever sounds like better enforcement. If Trump’s numbers were lower, why isn’t he being blamed?

dumbest post today . better enforcement at the border ? are you actually trying to spout that crap !

 

[d0gbreath]

This doesn't even take into account the ones who slipped through that we don't know about.

They can't say how many watch listers got through, because, like us, they don't know either.

 

[bodecea]

The asylum laws are being gamed. People who are coming for economic reasons claim asylum and are allowed to walk in and stay for years while waiting for their case to be heard. This mess will never end until the asylum laws are changed. Have you contacted your lawmakers?

MSN

You know if they're caught, it's working, right?

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Yep, they cut a bunch of Pakis loose into the country yesterday.

And why not?

We already got Psakis.

 

[konradv]

dumbest post today . better enforcement at the border ? are you actually trying to spout that crap !

When you start getting more stops, yes. It sounds as if the Trump border policy was all talk and, like the wall, very little action.

 

[yidnar]

You know if they're caught, it's working, right?

did they catch them all ? with more unknowns coming through it stands to reason more threats are getting in .

 

[yidnar]

When you start getting more stops, yes. It sounds as if the Trump border policy was all talk and, like the wall, very little action.

are you actually trying to say that less undocumented people coming across the boarder during the Trump admin was less safe ?

 

[konradv]

did they catch them all ? with more unknowns coming through it stands to reason more threats are getting in .

It stands to reason that under Trump, even more we’re getting in.

 

[konradv]

are you actually trying to say that less undocumented people coming across the boarder during the Trump admin was less safe ?

You mean more, don’t you? Joe’s catching the guys Donny talked about, but didn’t really do anything about. The increased number of detentions is proof.

 

[yidnar]

It stands to reason that under Trump, even more we’re getting in.

not according to home land security and border patrol agents and the governors of border states . was NYC Chicago and other blue cities complaining about mass influxes said migrants ?

 

[konradv]

. was NYC Chicago and other blue cities complaining about mass influxes said migrants ?

Not anymore, now that w have a competent president. The only complaints about migrants were those DeSantis kidnapped and bussed to. NYC.

 

[Puma Punku]

One single attack on one single city. The damage done by the 911 terrorists was mostly from our panicky response that ended up becoming the longest war in our history. We have never remembered.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Highest number ever sounds like better enforcement.

Did you actually believe that when you wrote it?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Yep, they cut a bunch of Pakis loose into the country yesterday.

Everyone from Pakistan is a terrorist...

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The asylum laws are being gamed. People who are coming for economic reasons claim asylum and are allowed to walk in and stay for years while waiting for their case to be heard. This mess will never end until the asylum laws are changed. Have you contacted your lawmakers?

MSN

There seems to be conflicting figures

Trump is right that border patrol is seeing an uptick of encounters with people on the terrorist watchlist at the southern border, but there were more such encounters in 2019, when he was president.

The number of all people, including U.S. citizens, on the terrorist watchlist who were stopped at the southern border as of July of this fiscal year was 216, compared with 165 in all of fiscal year 2022.

But the number of border crossers on the watchlist was higher in fiscal year 2019 — during the Trump administration — at 280 individuals.

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