(Tea Party PAC) – According to newly released data from the Customs and Border Protection agency, more than 40 migrants who were arrested for trying to enter the country illegally were found to be on a terrorist watchlist since Joe Biden moved into the White House.

A report from Fox News has revealed that the data, which was sent to lawmakers as part of a response to a congressional inquiry, states that since Jan. 20, 2021, U.S. Border Patrol, along with the Office of Field Operations has “arrested 42 subjects who were on the terror watchlist and attempted to enter the United States illegally.”

“The Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) contains information about the identities of those who are known or ‘reasonably suspected’ of being involved in terrorist activities. Republican lawmakers have repeatedly called for the number of those encountered at the border to be made public by the administration,” the report stated.

“The number does not count the number who got past overwhelmed Border Patrol agents at the southern border. Fox News reported earlier this month that over 62,000 illegal immigrants evaded Border Patrol agents in March alone, averaging about 2,000 a day,” the report added.

“The latest information from CBP comes in response to an inquiry in August from 20 House Republicans led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, which called for the Department of Homeland Security to provide a slew of information about the ongoing crisis at the southern border. The lawmakers asked for the number of migrants who entered unlawfully and ‘are included on a list maintained by the Federal Government relating to terrorists or individuals prohibited from boarding a commercial aircraft,'” the Fox News report stated.

Lawmakers wasted no time taking a few shots at the agency for its lack of transparency.

“Due to the unprecedented nature of this crisis, it is dangerously irresponsible for your Department to not be as transparent as possible with the American people, the states of this union and the localities facing the frontline effects of this crisis,” that letter read.

Fox News had stated in previous reports that 23 people had been taken into custody across the southern border by the Border Patrol between the dates of Jan. 20 and the last part of December. This new figure includes the Office of Field Operations data, and as such, also includes those encountered at ports of entry. This information also includes arrests made across the country and is not specific to just those made at the southern border.

“Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott had repeatedly sounded the alarm over the number of TSDBs coming across the border, telling fellow agents last year that it was ‘at a level we have never seen before,'” Fox reported.

“We have terrorist threats we can’t get into in this type of a forum but they are real,” he told Fox News’ Bret Baier in an interview conducted last October.

The actual number of TSDB encounters has come right as Biden and his administration have released its border numbers for the month of March earlier in the week, which revealed that more than 220,000 encounters took place during that period, which is the highest of Biden’s presidency thus far.

“The data sent by CBP to lawmakers also details the costs of the care of migrants. Since January 20, CBP has spent $95 million of federal funding on personnel, $338 million on infrastructure, $98 million on utilities and food and $166 million on healthcare. Additionally, it has spent $12 million on transporting migrants by vehicle and $36 million on transporting them by airplane,” the report stated.

“Both Republicans and Democrats have expressed concerns over the Biden administration’s plan to lift the Title 42 public health order at the end of May, which has been used to expel a majority of migrants at the border — with lawmakers fearing it will lead to an even bigger surge in migration to the already overwhelmed border,” Fox News concluded.

This, folks, is why it is critical for us to take border security seriously and build the wall. We also need to enforce the laws we currently have on the books. It’s not just people who want to come here to escape from the harsh conditions of their own country. Evil terrorists who want to destroy our way of life also use illegal immigration as a means of infiltrating the country.

We must be vigilant to ensure these kinds of people do not make it inside America.

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