The Biden administration has caught and released at least 99 illegal immigrants whose identities matched the terrorism watch list, according to a new congressional report Monday.

They were caught by the Border Patrol along the southern border from 2021 to 2023, and were subsequently released as part of the Biden administration’s more relaxed approach to immigration, the House Judiciary Committee said.

Another 34 illegal immigrants flagged by the watchlist were still being held as of June.

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All told, since the start of fiscal year 2021, Border Patrol agents at the southern border have detected 375 people whose names triggered the watchlist, including 282 from 2021 through 2023. That indicates that more than a third of terrorism watchlist migrants are being released.

Those encountered spanned 36 countries, including terror hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan and Yemen.

At least 27 of the terrorism suspects were granted bond by an immigration judge, and four were granted asylum, the House report said. Investigators said most immigration judges don’t have access to top-secret information, meaning they may not even know the dangers presented by migrants appearing before them and asking for release.

“Releasing terrorists into the United States has become almost routine for the Biden-Harris administration,” said the report, prepared by the Republican staff of the Judiciary Committee and released by Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican.

The number of terrorism suspects detected has been known but what happened to them has been closely guarded by the Biden administration.

Republicans on Capitol Hill have been pressing to make the data public. The report says the data came from the Homeland Security Department in June.

The Washington Times has reached out to the department for comment.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in testimony on Capitol Hill, has acknowledged that some are being released and others detained.

“If an individual is on the terrorist screening data set, and they pose a threat to national security or public safety, they are a priority for detention,” he said in an April appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee.

The rate of border terrorism arrests is down significantly in recent months, suggesting some changes in the pattern of new arrivals.

June saw just three Border Patrol arrests of people whose identities triggered the watchlist. That’s the lowest number in a single month since Homeland Security began reporting the numbers in 2022.