The White House claims that a budget plan proposed this month by the conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) would make the southern border less secure by removing funds for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees and limiting the capacity to fight drug trafficking. The White House described the HFC’s proposal for changes to the Biden administration’s budget as a “five-alarm fire for hardworking families” that threatens public safety and border security. According to a March 10 letter from the group, members of the HFC said they would “consider voting to raise the debt ceiling” if certain contingencies were enacted through legislation….

Fresh data from Customs and Border Protection has revealed that sixteen people matched to the FBI’s terrorist watchlist were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in February alone. As reported by Fox News, the total number of individuals on the watchlist found to be attempting to enter the country so far this fiscal year is now 69. CBP expects the trend to continue, and to smash last fiscal year’s record 98 encounters. Between FY17 and FY20 there were only 8 of these terror watchlist arrests, and in 2021 only 15. NEW: CBP data reveals Border Patrol arrested 16 people on the FBI’s terror watchlist who crossed illegally at the southern border in February, bringing total terror watchlist arrests for FY’23 (so far) to 69. FY’23 is on pace to beat FY’22, which had 98, an all time record.… https://t.co/k80jfpo2xi — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) March 16, 2023 Federal Data Quietly Reveals 100 Terror Suspects Caught At Southern Border When border the Southern and Northern borders are taken into account, FY23 has seen 214 people in the Terrorist Screening Database stopped by CBP agents to date. Last year, the total was 380, yet the year before that there were only 157 encounters. Last year, the FBI arrested an Iraqi man who was plotting to smuggle ISIS operatives into the U.S. through the southern border in a plan to assassinate George Bush. He also claimed to have just successfully smuggled two Hezbollah fighters into the U.S. https://t.co/vPPdsYOdrS https://t.co/XiDVCMpbIl — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) March 17, 2023 The Department of Homeland Security says the border is secure and claims that the biggest terror threat the U.S. faces is ‘domestic extremists’ radicalised by “false narratives propagated on online platforms.” DHS Chief Says Biggest Terror Threat is Americans Radicalized by ‘Online Narratives’ The latest data shows that on the