Top Republican: Border Patrol Caught People on Terrorist Watch List at U.S.-Mexico Border

Republican Rep. John Katko, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Monday during a trip to the southern border that U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended individuals who were on the terrorist watchlist.

"Something that very much concerns me as the Homeland Security ranking member is people they've caught in the last few days over there in sector three or monument three, have been on the terror watchlist," Katko, a former federal organized crime and narcotics prosecutor, said during a news conference in El Paso with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republican lawmakers. "Individuals that they have on the watchlist for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border. We need to wake up. We need to understand."

(h/t Just the News)