78 on terrorist watch list, nearly 11,000 known criminals, 697 gang members
(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are apprehending individuals on the federal terrorist watch list, those with criminal convictions and wanted by law enforcement, and gang members attempting to enter the U.S. southern border illegally.
In fiscal 2022 to date, federal agents apprehended 78 people on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS), referred to as the “terrorist watchlist.” That’s three times more than the total apprehensions of potential terrorists combined over the past four years.
In fiscal 2021, 16 people on the terrorist watch list were apprehended; three each in fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019; six in fiscal 2018; and two in fiscal 2017, according to CBP data.
The TSDS is a federal database that maintains sensitive information about terrorist identities. It initially originated as the consolidated terrorist watchlist to house information on known or suspected terrorists, CBP explains, but has since evolved over the past decade to include individuals who are determined to be a potential threat to the U.S., including known affiliates of those on the watch list.
“Encounters of watchlisted individuals at our borders are very uncommon,” CBP says, “underscoring the critical work CBP Agents and Officers carry out every day on the frontlines.”
Foreign nationals who illegally enter the U.S. who are on the TSDS watch list and are encountered by CBP agents at land ports of entry “may be denied admission to our country upon presentation, barring justification for their arrest under CBP policy,” CBP says. Those encountered by Border Patrol agents in-between ports of entry “may be detained and removed, to the extent possible under CBP policy, or turned over to another government agency for subsequent detention or law enforcement action, as appropriate.”
Despite being inundated with the greatest number of people illegally entering the southern border in U.S. history, in addition to facing staffing shortages, CBP and BP agents have encountered and arrested more individuals with criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement this fiscal year than they have in previous fiscal years, according to the most recent CBP data.
In fiscal 2022 to date, CBP Office of Field Operations agents have encountered 15,558 criminal foreign nationals who illegally entered the U.S. They also made 9,431 arrests of those in the National Crime Information Center database who are wanted by other law enforcement agencies.
Border Patrol agents encountered and arrested 10,778 criminal noncitizens in fiscal 2022 to date including 836 with outstanding wants or warrants.
CBP OFO agents encountered and arrested 6,567 criminal noncitizens in fiscal 2021; 7,009 in fiscal 2020; 12,705 in fiscal 2019; 11,623 in fiscal 2018; and 10,596 in fiscal 2017.
They also made a total of 8,979 NCIC arrests in fiscal 2021; 7,108 in fiscal 2020; 8,546 in fiscal 2019; 5,929 in fiscal 2018; and 7,656 in fiscal 2017.
BP agents encountered and arrested 10,763 criminal noncitizens in fiscal 2021, nearly five times as many than in fiscal 2020 of 2,438. The numbers for the previous fiscal years were also significantly lower: 4,269 in fiscal 2019, 6,698 in fiscal 2018, and 8,531 in fiscal 2017.
However, the number of arrests made by BP agents of those with outstanding warrants in fiscal years prior to fiscal 2022 was significantly higher. Compared to 836 arrests in fiscal 2022 to date, BP agents arrested 1,904 with outstanding warrants in fiscal 2021; 2,054 in fiscal 2020; 4,153 in fiscal 2019; 1,550 in fiscal 2018; and 2,675 in fiscal 2017.
The term, “criminal noncitizens,” refers to foreign nationals who’ve entered the U.S. illegally and have been convicted of a crime they were charged with committing in the U.S. or another country.
“Criminal noncitizens encountered at ports of entry are inadmissible, absent extenuating circumstances, and represent a subset of total OFO inadmissibles,” CBP says. Those arrested by BP agents are also included as a subset of total apprehensions.
CBP and BP agents also apprehended more known gang members in fiscal 2022 than in the two previous fiscal years but less than those apprehended in fiscal years 2015, 2018 and 2019.
In fiscal 2022 to date, 697 known gang members were apprehended, compared to 348, 363, 976, 808, 536, 702, and 844 in the last seven fiscal years.
The greatest number of known gang members illegally entering the U.S. southern border are affiliated with MS-13, Paisas, 18th Street, other gangs, Surenos (sur-13) and Latin Kings and Tango Blast.
there are a LOT MORE than the amount CAUGHT
Exactly. WITH Damn near a million “Got-aways”, who KNOWS What the real # of terrorists who snuk in is.
BIGGEST question i have though, is HAVE WE ALREADY DEPORTED Those terrorists and gang members? OR ARE THEY STILL in our nation?
It shows how radical the Leftists are! They’re willing to let all of that crime pour through our borders for political gain, with no concern whatsoever about the harm it brings to the southern states or America at large. But as soon as a few of them show up at Martha’s Vineyard, it’s suddenly a major emergency, and the Republicans are called criminals, (even though they are guilty of the same, and immeasurably worse)!
Future voters for the dem-rat party.
The USA State Department and the United Nations and backing and funding this illegal invasion, along with NGOs. We the taxpayer fund this with our tax dollars. This **** needs to end.
AND if this doesn’t class as criminal, IMO ANYONE “Harboring or helping a fugitive’, should NEVER EVER AGAIN be charged criminally..
This is an indictment of the incompetent and criminal actions of the Left. We must follow the money trail that makes this all happen….
Newsflash: THE TERRORISTS ARE ALREADY HERE! With the “DOOR’S WIDE OPEN BUMBLING BIDEN POLICY”!! Most of the terrorists have probably been here since bumbling Biden began squatting in our White House. By the time we get him out, they will have their Plan of Attack foolproofed and ready to go. Just like living in a hurricane zone is a crazy game of Russian roulette living in the USA has become the same sick game…… because it’s not a matter of if we will be attacked AGAIN, it’s just a matter of WHEN AND WHERE! It absolutely boggles the mind that our SO-CALLED representatives seem to be going along with their merry little lives with absolutely NO REGARD for the SAFETY OF OUR COUNTRY! Obviously they have forgotten what it was like on 9-11.
democrat President, Barack H. Obama, said once, ” America is, and always will be, A land of Immigrants.”
So, they’re criminal Gang Members, so what says the democrat elite!
” Illegal immigrants’ are just undocumented democrat voters.” Author unknown
So much for, they’re all just hard-working immigrants looking to make a better life for their family. With the Democrats soft on crime policies the last thing we need is to import more criminals. By the time 2024 rolls around and we can get rid of the idiot in chief America will be such a dangerous place to live we will be fleeing to Mexico.
Fleeing the problem won’t fix it. Problems need to be CORRECTED.
Exactly. ITS BECAUSE good folk FLED places like washington or oregon, or colorado, only to be SURPLANTED BY LIBTARD rejects from commiefornia, that their EVIL SPREAD…
truedeel… By the time 2024 rolls around and we can get rid of the idiot in chief America will be such a dangerous place to live we will be fleeing to Mexico.”
The Statue of liberty has a poem inscribed on it which says, ” Give us your Tired, the poor, yearning to be free….” Democrat, Barack H. Obama said, to Paraphrase him, ” America is, and always will be, a land of immigrants.”
But what do the immigrants, Barack H. Obama forgot to ask, crossing America’s open borders, what have they to contribute to America and its people except to add more people to the already overburdened welfare roles.
IN the book, by Graham Allison, ” Destined FOR War ,George Santayana noted that, ” Only those who fail to study history are condemned to repeat it. ” ” The rise and fall of the Roman Empire,” for example.
Theodore Roosevelt in his address to the Knights of Columbus Oct. 12 Th. 1915 warned, ” The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities …” Has America been warned, Did we take the warning.? Obviously No.
They’ve added crime, disease, drugs and crime.. Oh, did i mention crime?
ltuser ” …. Pelosi ripped for saying Florida needs migrants to ‘pick the crops…”
And what do the illegal immigrants, Gang Members, do in the Off- Season?
Crime, Crime and more Crime..
And maybe sex.