Published October 17, 2023
Illegal aliens on America’s terrorist watchlist are crossing America’s southern border, including at least two from Iran so far this month, authorities say.
Since Oct. 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended at least two Iranians at the border who are on the watchlist, officially called the Terrorist Screening Data Base, according to Fox News national correspondent Griff Jenkins, who broke the news Monday morning on X, formerly Twitter.
From Oct. 1, 2022, to Aug. 31, 2023, Customs and Border Protection reported encountering 151 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist between ports of entry on the southern border, plus 76 more at ports of entry. This number does not include an unknown number of “gotaways” who successfully evaded Border Patrol agents and entered the interior of the U.S.
The number of illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist encountered by the Border Patrol on the southern border has risen sharply in the past four years—from three in fiscal year 2020 to 15 in fiscal 2021 to 98 in fiscal 2022, and now over 150 in fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30.
The terrorist watchlist includes “individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watchlisted individuals,” according to CBP. The government’s chart below refers to the watchlist by the acronym TSDS.
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SOURCE: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/16/iranians-americas-terrorist-watchlist-encountered-southern-border/
RELATED: BREAKING DOWN WHITE HOUSE’S CLAIM IT WAS FORCED TO BUILD A SECTION OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER WALL
Published October 13, 2023
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates claimed in an Oct. 5 tweet that the White House is forced by a 2019 law to construct a section of the border wall.
The New York Times reported that the Biden administration was expanding the border wall, calling it a reversal of the White House’s position that it would not build anymore. Bates, responding to an MSNBC video reporting the decision, said in a tweet that reporting that the administration reversed itself was false.
“‘Reversal’ is absolutely false. Fact: Congress is forcing us to do this under a 2019 law. Fact: We called on Congress to cancel these funds. They didn’t. We follow the rule of law. Congress needs to stop delaying the effective border solutions @POTUS proposed,” Bates tweeted.
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SOURCE: https://checkyourfact.com/2023/10/13/fact-check-biden-administration-border-wall-construction/
RELATED: Biden Claims Border Wall Doesn’t Work Day After His Admin Touts New Construction
Published October 5, 2023
President Joe Biden said he doesn’t think that a border wall is effective just a day after his administration cleared a path to allow more construction of the border wall on federally protected land in Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will construct a portion of a border wall in the Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas amid a surge in illegal immigrants entering the country, according to an unpublished Wednesday federal register filing. Biden told reporters Thursday that he tried to get his administration to redirect the money being spent on the border wall but under the law, he “can’t stop that.”
“The border wall money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money,” Biden said. “They didn’t. They wouldn’t. In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that.”
When asked by a reporter if he thinks the border wall works, all the president had to say was “no.”
