Same problems, new border: U.S. Northern border reaches record highs of terror watchlist encounters

Migrants and terrorists are banking on the United States spending time, money and resources protecting the southern border and neglecting its Canadian border. More than 150,000 migrants have attempted to enter the United States through the northern border this fiscal year alone.

Congressional Republicans and local officials and border patrol are begging for assistance and raising alarms. Agents recorded 375 encounters at the northern border with people on the Terrorist Screening Dataset, better known as the terrorist watchlist, so far in 2023. The southern border sees significantly more immigrant encounters overall, but has also recorded 216 watchlist encounters so far this year.

Just The News reports that nearly half of all 2023 northern encounters occurred on New York’s border, despite the fact that the state

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