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FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are demanding answers from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on why his agency will not make public the number of apprehended migrants who are on the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) — after DHS purportedly claimed the information was “Law Enforcement Sensitive.”
“The true purpose of a Law Enforcement Sensitive label is to prevent harm from coming to our law enforcement officers and law enforcement-related activities, but it seems that this label is instead being used to protect the reputation of the current political administration,” Reps. John Katko, R-NY, Clay Higgins, R-La., and August Pfluger, R-Texas, said in a letter to Mayorkas, obtained by Fox News.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS URGE DHS TO REVEAL HOW MANY MIGRANTS ARE ON TERROR WATCHLIST
The Republicans have been pushing for months for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reveal how many migrants were apprehended at the southern border and whose names are present on the TSDB
The database contains information about the identities of those who are “known or reasonably suspected” of being involved in terrorist activities. The lawmakers said they received the number of migrants identified on the TSDB at a classified briefing and now want that number released to the public.
In March, Fox News reported that at least four migrants whose names match those on the terror watch list had been picked up by U.S. Border Patrol since the beginning of the fiscal year. But that number is expected to be much higher, particularly considering the enormous surge in numbers to the southern border — with more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in FY 2021.
Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the number of TSDBs coming across the border, telling fellow agents that it was “at a level we have never seen before. “
“We have terrorist threats we can’t get into in this…
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