Hundreds of migrants linked to terrorism are trying to enter the US.

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The Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revealed that hundreds of migrants on its ‘watchlist’ with ties to terrorism are being encountered at the US border. More terrorist-linked migrants were encountered at the US-Canada border (283) than at the US-Mexico border (139) in the fiscal year to July 2024.

“In the coming year, we expect that some individuals with ties to terrorism and some criminal actors will continue their efforts to exploit migration flows and the complex border security environment to enter the United States,” DHS said in its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment.

“Individuals with potential ties to terrorism continue to attempt to enter the home country through both the US-Mexico border and the US-Canada border, as well as through the immigration system,” the report adds.

Although the number of northern border crossings remains lower than the number of southern border crossings, there has been a significant increase in the number of encounters at the former. The National Pulse reported Wednesday that a Border Patrol sector covering New York, Vermont and New Hampshire saw as many migrant detentions in fiscal year 2024 as in the past 17 years combined.

The relatively low security along the northern border could explain why it attracts a disproportionate number of migrants with ties to terrorism.

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The Homeland Threat Assessment also predicts that transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) will “continue to exploit the complex security environment at the U.S. border to smuggle drugs and migrants into and across our border” in the coming year.

“Mexico-based TCOs, which include cartels and human trafficking organizations, will almost certainly continue to smuggle illegal migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border,” but warns that Honduran drug trafficking cells have also begun distributing fentanyl in particular sourced from the Sinaloa Cartel. January 2022.

“Before 2022, these traffickers primarily distributed heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine,” the report notes, suggesting Honduran criminals are creating a new market for the Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Vice President Harris has previously advocated defunding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), meaning such problems are unlikely to go away if she wins the presidential race in November.