The mainstream media will have you under the impression that every individual who crosses our border is doing so to seek asylum.

However, statistics reveal otherwise.

Hundreds of individuals on the FBI watch list have crossed into the country. Additionally, thousands of “special interest aliens” are confirmed to have entered the U.S., potentially leaving the nation vulnerable to a future terrorist attack.

Bill Melugin of Fox News cited these stats in a tweet, noting that as recently as 2019, there were as few as zero arrests of suspects on the FBI’s terror watch list at the southern border.

In 2022, there were 98. In 2023, the number has skyrocketed to 151 — but the year isn’t over yet.

There have also been over 1.5 million known "gotaways" since the start of 2021.

Sara Gonzales is concerned as to what this means for America’s future.

“If you’re Hamas or Hezbollah or any of these many terrorist organizations,” Gonzales begins, “they want to wipe us off the face of the planet. Let’s be frank here.”

“And you’re going to go through the trouble of coordinating this attack on Israel with the paragliders and the bombs and the, you know, pushing explosives on the border wall,” she continues.

“You don’t think they’re going to buy a plane ticket into Mexico and walk right across the damn border where it’s just open?”

She notes that in addition, Border Patrol is of course capable of reciting the stats on how many they’ve caught, but they can’t tell us how many terrorists they haven’t caught.

Blaze Media editor in chief Matt Peterson agrees.

“There’s 200-some countries in the world, and the only border that I see people unwilling on the right and left to send the United States military to is our own,” Peterson says.

“If you invite millions of people unvetted to come into your nation, you will destroy your country.”

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