In New York, Vermont and New Hampshire counties there has been a record increase in irregular border crossings in the last quarter, while more migrants They try to enter the United States from Canada to avoid being captured.
As more immigrants remain at the southern border, A larger number have headed to the US-Canada border, which is less fortified and much longer.indicated the New York Times in a report published on Sunday, which specifies how US authorities on the northern border have registered 191,603, an increase of 41% since 2022.
Although most still use legal ports of entry, More than 12,220 immigrants arrested crossing irregularly from Canada in 2023an increase of 241% compared to the 3,578 arrests in 2022.
In Canada, it is not necessary for travelers coming from Mexico to have a visa to enter the nation. In the wake of the above, a 295-mile stretch of border across the northeastern states known as the Swanton Sector has seen a huge surge, the Times report says.
“Record increase in illegal entries from Canada continues in Swanton sector. A citizen report in Champlain, New York, led to the arrest of 10 Bangladeshi nationals. The agents trust in the policing of our community. If you see something, say it! Call 1-800-689-3362,” U.S. Border Patrol Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia wrote in a social media post Thursday.
Since October 1 of last year, Members of the Swanton Sector Border Patrol have captured more than 3,100 people from 55 countriesGarcía noted in the X publication this February, indicating that these arrests in just the last quarter represent more than the total of irregular crossings in fiscal years 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 combined.
The Swanton Sector includes Vermont; Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence and Herkimer counties, New York; and Coos, Grafton and Carroll counties in New Hampshire, reported Fox News.
Border Patrol agents reported that In 15 missions they have rescued 37 immigrants along the northern border since October 2022explained the Times.
While there is no law currently in effect, government officials in Canada is considering imposing a visa requirement for travelers from Mexico after Quebec Premier Francois Legault alerted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in January that The flow of asylum seekers must be stopped as city services are at “breaking point”.
On the other hand, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York ordered the extradition of a Columbia man living in Quebec on charges linked to the smuggling of a 33-year-old woman who was five months pregnant and found frozen to death in a river near Champlain, New York, in December.
The prosecutors stated that the subject advertised on TikTok and accepted $2,500 from the woman and her husband to help her by texting to guide her while walking alone across the border. Her husband, who was already in the United States, reported this to the Border Patrol when the woman did not come out of the woods.
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