4 invaders ON WATCH LIST caught at border, how many got away??
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/four-migrants-terror-watch-list-borderFour migrants with names on terror watch list picked up at border since October
Republicans have been warning of the dangers of what they call 'open border' policies.
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
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Four foreign nationals, whose names match those on the terror watch list, have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. via the southern border since October, a congressional aide familiar with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information told Fox News.
That information shows that three migrants from Yemen and one from Serbia were picked up at the southern border by U.S. Border Patrol since the beginning of the fiscal year in October.
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The Serbian national was encountered on Jan. 28, amid an increasing surge in migrant numbers in recent months. The apprehensions were first reported by Axios.
Republicans have been warning about the risk of terrorists getting through the border amid the surge in numbers and the rollback of a number of Trump-era protections by the Biden administration.
CBP encountered more than 100,000 migrants in February, with the Department of Homeland Security admitting that the numbers CBP are facing are "overwhelming."
Republicans have blamed that spike on Biden administration policies, and warned that loosening border security could lead to terrorists or those on watch lists getting into the U.S.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Monday, during a visit to the border, that Border Patrol agents had been warning lawmakers about foreign nationals on the terror watch list getting in.
"You saw it in their eyes," McCarthy said, according to The Washington Post. "They talked about, ‘They’re on the list.’
McCarthy said migrants were coming from Yemen, China, Sri Lanka and Iran. Border Patrol agents arrested 11 Iranian citizens in Arizona last month.
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Rep. John Katko, the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, recounted a similar conversation with a Border Patrol official.
"And he said some of them are on the list. And I said list? And he said, 'yeah, the terror watch list.' And I was stunned and I've never heard that before," he said on "America's Newsroom."
"They said they've seized not just people from Central and South America, but even people from Yemen and places in the Middle East that are terrorism hotbeds," he said. "So this is a very serious problem because well beyond the unaccompanied minor and it started because this administration changed the policies and basically put an open door sign on on the southwest border."
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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday warned that the U.S. is on track to encounter more migrants than in the last 20 years, calling it a "difficult" situation.
Mayorkas will testify to the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, while Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are leading a delegation to the border next week.
Adam Shaw is a reporter covering U.S. and European politics for Fox News. He can be reached at adam.shaw@foxnews.com.
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