Congressman Reveals Multiple Terror Suspects Have Been Caught at Border Amid Current Surge

Suspected terrorists are crossing the southern border amid the glut of illegal immigrants slipping into the United States, according to lawmakers who toured the border Monday.

“Individuals that they have on the watchlist for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border,” Republican Rep. John Katko of New York said during a news conference in El Paso, Texas, with the GOP delegation. “We need to wake up.”

Katko said Border Patrol agents told him about the problem.

“We went up to what they call ‘Monument 3,’ which is the intersection of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. When I was standing there, looking out, I was talking to one of the agents, and he said the night before, 100 people came across and he said some of them are on ‘the list.’ I said, what list? He said, ‘the terror watch list,’ and that really sent my antenna up. It’s not just people coming from Honduras,” the congressman said, according to Fox News.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he was told by Border Patrol agents that individuals from Iran, Yemen, Sri Lanka and China were among those trying to cross the border.

The California Republican called the situation “beyond a crisis,” according to The Washington Times.

McCarthy noted that at one facility lawmakers visited, 120 Border Patrol agents were inside caring for the flood of migrants who had tried to cross, which meant they were not patrolling the border.