50 Individuals on Terror Watchlist Caught Attempting to Cross US Border Illegally: CBP

Published on January 29, 2024

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered 50 individuals on the FBI’s terror watchlist trying to illegally enter the United States so far in fiscal year 2024, which began in October 2023. According to CBP statistics released on Jan. 26, there were 49 encounters with people who have records in the Terrorist Screening Dataset—also known as the “watchlist”—between ports of entry at the U.S. southern border. At the U.S. northern border, meanwhile, only one individual on the watchlist was encountered, according to the data. It comes after a record 172 such encounters were recorded in fiscal year 2023, which exceeded the previous record of 98 in fiscal year 2022, and 16 in fiscal year 2021. Before fiscal year 2021, those with records in the terror watchlist were in the single digits for data going back to 2017....

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