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‘Serious red flags for the national security of the United States,’ a group of GOP lawmakers told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
It comes after a record 172 such encounters were recorded in fiscal year 2023.
Officials at the southern border arrested 169 people whose names matched those on the watch list from October 2022 to September 2023.
‘Open borders make us less safe and vulnerable to terrorism. We can’t allow terrorists to sneak into our country and do us harm’: US Rep.
The number is larger than the last six years combined.
U.S. Border Patrol has intercepted a record number of illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2023 who are on the federal terror watchlist, leading lawmakers to question the competence of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
