Five more migrants on terror watch list arrested near Arizona border~AFGHAN NATIONAL ALSO ARRESTED AS BEING ON TERROR WATCHLIST
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
For enemies of America, it’s let the good times roll, thanks to the Biden regime.
“Five Migrants on Terror Watch List Arrested near AZ Border Post-Title 42,” by Randy Clark and Bob Price, Breitbart, May 14, 2023:
Border Patrol agents in a single border sector arrested five migrants later discovered to be on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) watch list. The apprehensions occurred on Friday in the Tucson Sector of the United States Border Patrol shortly after the end of Title 42. According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, not authorized to speak to the media, the migrants were referred to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task for further investigation and identity confirmation.
The source says the arrests of the foreign nationals who illegally crossed the border and attempted to avoid detection and apprehension occurred in separate incidents throughout the day and evening on Friday. Information regarding the demographics and nationalities of the arrested migrants was not available.
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection report, a total of 80 migrants who are listed in the Terrorist Screening Database have been apprehended after entering the United States along the southwest border between ports of entry this fiscal year. Two more were apprehended after crossing the northern border with Canada.
The data includes migrants apprehended between October 2022 and March 2023. The migrants whose names are listed in the TSDB differ from migrants who are scrutinized as being from special interest countries.
According to the FBI, Terrorist Screening Database contains information related to specific individuals reasonably suspected to be involved in terrorism (or related activities). A person’s name being listed in the TSDB triggers a reporting process that alerts the FBI to an encounter by the Border Patrol. The source says the additional scrutiny triggered by the encounter includes verification that the migrant whose name matches a name on the list is in fact the same person….
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SEE ALSO, AFGHAN NATIONAL ARRESTED: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/05/border-agents-arrest-man-on-fbi-terror-watchlist