More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border in Fiscal 2022 Than During Entire Trump Presidency

"Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States."

So says the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The same webpage that makes this declaration includes a table that provides some relevant data for the fiscal years from 2017 to 2023. It lists how many individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (commonly known as the terrorist watchlist) were encountered by the Border Patrol as they were trying to illegally sneak into the United States between the ports of entry on our southern border.

The Terrorist Screening...