Texas Republican introduces bill requiring CBP to screen migrants against federal terrorist watch list

Texas GOP Rep. Roger Williams will introduce a bill to require federal immigration authorities to screen all migrants crossing the border against the FBI’s terror watch list.

"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall take into and maintain custody over an alien until the Commissioner cross references the name of such alien with the terrorist screening database and a result for such cross reference is received by the Commissioner," the measure states. Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. Story tips can be sent via email and on X: @RealKyleMorris.

"We are a land of laws, and it is past time this administration acts like it," Williams said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Joe Biden is encouraging a deadly invasion of fighting-age men on American soil, and each day this Democrat-created influx of illegal aliens allows bad actors to slip past Border Patrol undetected. Under current law, CBP is not required to screen migrants against the terrorist watchlist database, and as we have seen too often, dangerous criminals are released into our nation who go on to harm American citizens and communities.