"The open-borders policies of President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the United States, including terrorist organizations and other bad actors looking to harm Americans," creating a national security threat, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement said in a new interim report released Monday.
The report only appears to focus on KSTs apprehended between ports of entry at the southwest border, excluding the threat posed by the overwhelming majority apprehended at the northern border.
Congressional reports continue to appear to only cite one KST data set, instead of four U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports: at and between ports of entry at both borders.
The majority, 487, were apprehended at the northern border compared to 249 at the southwest border.
TCS Border crisis terrorists graphic U.S. Customs and Border Protection The trend continues in fiscal 2024, with 234 KSTs apprehended at the northern border and 125 at the southwest border, according to CBP data last updated July 15.
"Of the more than 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist who were encountered by Border Patrol at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, the Department of Homeland Security released nearly 100 of them, with at least 34 others in DHS custody but not yet removed from the United States," the report states, without clarifying the data solely refers to apprehensions at the southwest border between ports of entry.
"So far during fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol has encountered tens of thousands of illegal aliens nationwide from countries that could present national security risks, including 2,134 Afghan nationals, 33,347 Chinese nationals, 541 Iranian nationals, 520 Syrian nationals, and 3,104 Uzbek nationals," the report states.
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