Border Patrol Encountered 16 Illegals on Terror Watch List in February

Border Patrol terror watch-list encounters are on track to exceed last year’s record, according to new data released this week by Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In February, Border Patrol agents stopped 16 people on the FBI’s terror watch list who crossed illegally at the southern border. The total number of encounters for the fiscal year 2023 is 69 to date, which means the number of such encounters will exceed the total from the prior fiscal year. That number is 98. Keep in mind that only eight terror watch list arrests were made between fiscal years 2017 and 2020 between ports of …