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Border Watch List Surges Due to New Designations | US News
Border encounters with people flagged on the terrorist watch list are skyrocketing—up 16x since the Biden era—with over 12,000 projected for fiscal 2026. But it’s not a flood of ISIS or al-Qaeda militants. The real driver? Trump-era policy that labeled major Western Hemisphere cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, automatically triggering their members’ inclusion in the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database. Numbers climbed steadily—from 736 in FY23 to over 4,000 in FY25—and already hit 8,000 in just eight months of FY26, mostly at southern border ports. Experts stress this…
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