Border Patrol nabbed 17 people on FBI terror watch list at southern border in December - Fox News

There were 98 terror watch list arrests in FY22, 15 in FY21 and just three in FY 20 at the southern border caught between ports of entry.

At the ports of entry at the northern and southern borders, meanwhile, CBP’s Office of Field Operations has encountered 125 people on the TSDB so far this fiscal year.

CBP sources told Fox News this week that there were more than 70,000 gotaways in the month of December, similar to the number detected in November.

Yet we can meet this moment if and only if we work together," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

However, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee have promised to increase scrutiny on the administration’s policies in the wake of the new numbers, and taking aim at "this refusal to enforce law and order at the border."

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.