Canada reports increase in illegal immigrants on its border with the United States

The Swanton Sector Border Patrol in Vermont reported Monday that found a record number of people illegally crossing the Canadian border into the US. last month.

Agents detained 367 people in January, mostly Mexican citizens. The average number of crossings in the Swanton Sector over the past 12 years is just 28. Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert N. Garcia said officers are encountering more family groups with young children and babies.

The increase occurs when border crossings in the north they reach -4 degreesand while the focus continues on the immigration crisis on the southern border.

From October 2022 through January 2023, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the sector they have seen an 84% increase in encounters and arrests compared to the same period last year.

“It cannot be stressed enough: it is not only illegal to circumvent legal means of entry into the United States, but it is extremely dangerous, particularly in adverse weather conditions,” he added in a statement. in the record number of crossings.

Harsh winter conditions along the northern border have led to the need for increase search and rescue efforts. They have been asked to provide life-saving assistance in at least two incidents in Newport, Vermont and Burke, New York.

The rise in the northern border seems to coincide with the peaks on the southern border since President Joe Biden took office.

In fiscal year 2020, encounters and apprehensions at the northern border were 32,376. The first full year (2022) that Biden was in office, the northern border saw a more than triple increase to 109,535 encounters.

So far this year, from October 2022 to January 2023, 55,736 illegal crossings have been found. The entire southern border saw a massive decline in crossings from December 2022 to January 2023, falling from a record 251,978 to nearly 100,000 fewer with 156,274 encounters. (YO)