Ex-Border Patrol chief: REAL border crisis is terrorists crossing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed Thursday that CBP encountered 212,672 migrants in July - a 13 per cent increase from June and 21-year month high'Our border security efforts are layered and include multiple levels of rigorous screening that allow us to detect and prevent people who pose national security or public safety risks from entering the United States,' a CBP spokesperson said in a statement to DailyMail.com'DHS works with our international partners to share intelligence and other information, including to prevent individuals on the terrorist watchlist from entering the United States,' the spokesperson continued. '
48% : Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited the southern border last week, where he announced in July Border Patrol encountered a record-breaking 212,672 migrants in July - a 13 per cent increase from the 188,829 illegal immigrants encountered in June.
42% : CBP adjudicates individuals encountered at and between our ports of entry against several classified and unclassified databases to determine if they pose a threat to national security, consistent with the law.'
42% : CBP told members of Congress in January that federal law enforcement stopped four people on the terror watchlist from Serbia and Yemen, which is greater than the average total seen in recent years.
41% : Here a raft of migrants arrives in Roma, Texas by way of the Rio Grande River on August 13 as they prepare to turn themselves over to Border Patrol for processingScott, who served under Donald Trump for one year starting on January 24, 2020 and retired over the weekend,
39% : While Border Patrol did not deny that the number of terrorist encounters has increased, they did assure that there are systems in place to make sure these individuals are stopped from crossing in the first place.
39% : Border Patrol pulled more than 40 per cent of its agents from the field to help instead with mitigating the crisis after crossings occured, which included transporting, processing and caring for the record number of migrants in federal custody.
37% : The number of these individuals has drastically increased in the midst of the border crisis, which has seen a 21-year high in encounters with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with illegal immigrants.
35% : Recently resigned Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott warned his 19,000 agents that the 'real' crisis at the southern border is human smuggling and known and suspected terrorists entering the country by land crossings
24% : Scott was forced to resign, retire or relocate by the Biden administrationMore known or suspected terrorists than recorded in previous years have crossed the southern border in the midst of Joe Biden's migration crisis, according to a video from the outgoing Border Patrol chief.

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