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Don't worry about Al Queda (Qaedat al-Jihad) terrorists now safely headquartered in Kabul, Afghanistan, they are arriving across the border with Mexico. A staggering 81 individuals on the US terrorist watchlist have been stopped at the border since President Joe Biden took office, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted. So many others got through on the way north? The Republican governor cited data from US Border Patrol showing its agents have encountered 66 people on the terror watchlist at the US border this fiscal year. Another 15 people on the list were stopped the year Biden took office. In previous years, Border Patrol agents had only encountered 3 terror suspects a year or none at all.

The terror watchlist is a federal database of all known or suspected terrorists, and most people on the list are not US citizens, said the FBI. In the last decade, the list has grown to include those could be a potential threat to the US or who are associates of those who are threats. “The sharp rise in apprehensions of the watch-listed individuals coincides with a significant rise in overall border encounters,” the US Border Patrol said.

Since October, Border Patrol has encountered 1.8 million people at the southern Border of the US. That’s more than four times the number of people who arrived at the US border in 2020, when 405,036 were stopped at the border.

 
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