The New England region of the U.S.-Canada border has seen a staggering increase in the number of immigrants caught attempting to enter the United States illegally, with people from 85 countries apprehended since last fall.
Border Patrol agents in the New Hampshire, Vermont, and eastern upstate New York region intercepted more illegal immigrants in fiscal 2023 than in the previous 11 years combined, but in just the first eight months of 2024, arrests have already surpassed last year’s record, according to Robert Garcia, chief patrol agent of the Swanton Sector in New England.
In May alone, agents in the Swanton Sector apprehended more than 2,900 illegal immigrants — nearly three times more than the 1,065 immigrants arrested in all of 2022.
Agents in the Swanton Sector of the northern border have stopped more than 12,000 illegal immigrants since October 2023.
Earlier this spring, Northern Border Security Caucus co-Chairmen Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Ryan Zinke (R-MT), House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and other members sent the Biden administration a letter blaming it for the increase in crossings, which they described as “symptomatic of your broader failure to secure the border.”
“Dangerous individuals continue to take advantage of the vast Northern Border, which is the longest land border between two countries in the world, and relatively unguarded by natural barriers,” the lawmakers wrote. --->READ MORE HERE
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Illegal border crossings at the northern border continue to break records, according to the latest data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
A record-breaking 18,644, were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. at the northern border in May, the highest total for the month of May in recorded history.
The northern border has seen the highest number of illegal entries in U.S. history under the Biden administration, The Center Square has reported.
In the first eight months of fiscal 2024, more than 99,000 were apprehended after illegally entering through the northern border, according to CBP data. If the current trajectory continues, the numbers are on track to surpass fiscal 2023 apprehensions of 147,666.
Those numbers are up from 92,737 apprehensions in fiscal 2022 and 24,895 in fiscal 2021.
CBP’s fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
The data excluded “gotaways,” the official term used by CBP to describe foreign nationals who illegally enter the U.S. between ports of entry and don’t return to Mexico or Canada. CBP does not publicly report this data. The Center Square first began obtaining it from a Border Patrol agent on condition of anonymity to provide a more accurate picture of monthly apprehension data.
The busiest sector at the northern border is the Swanton Sector, which includes all of Vermont, six upstate New York counties and three New Hampshire counties.
The sector spans 295 miles of international boundary with the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and is the first international land boundary east of the Great Lakes.
In fiscal 2023, Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents broke previous records by apprehending the greatest number of illegal border crossers in history of more than 6,700 foreign nationals from 76 countries, The Center Square exclusively reported.
They continue to break records. --->READ MORE HERE
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