By Jennie Taer
Border Patrol agents stationed along the Swanton sector of the northern border saw a surge in illegal migrants crossing in a period of eight months that topped what they experienced in the last six years, according to the agency.
Border Patrol recorded 3,823 illegal migrant encounters between October 2022 and May 2023 in the Swanton sector, which encompasses parts of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, according to recently updated U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. The new record coincides with a broader surge in illegal migration across the northern border, where agents have recorded more than 5,600 illegal migrant encounters in the last eight months.
“How do they do it? We’re often asked how our @borderpatrol Agents manage the increased volume of illicit cross-border traffic—currently over 6 years of arrests (2017-2022) in under 9 months (FY 2023). The answers: Grit. Integrity. Vigilance. Dedication to serve. Love of Country,” Swanton sector Border Patrol Chief Robert Garcia said in a statement regarding the surge.
Border Patrol agents and residents along the northern border have expressed concerns with the surge in interviews that took place in recent months with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The northern border, which is the largest shared border in the world, lacks enough manpower to address the influx, agents stationed along the area previously told the DCNF. The surge can also be attributed to lax travel restrictions that allow many migrants to fly to Canada without having to obtain a visa.
“Everybody in this area is on edge,” Northern border resident Dan Cowan, whose home is located in the Swanton sector, previously told the DCNF. “We don’t have the holding capacity for Border Patrol or U.S. Customs. What are they gonna do with these people when they’re getting here? They’re not deporting them.”
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I’m amazed at Vermonters continue to support the term coat Phil Scott
He made us a sanctuary State… It was one of his first dirty deeds against Vermonters and the eventual destruction of our beautiful state.
Phil Scott voted for Joe Biden claiming he put country over party… It has now become very clear which country both he and Joe Biden support and it is not the United States of America…
We are being sold out to China…
Phil Scott can say what he wants and pretend that he is doing us a favor when he knows his attempted vetoes will go nowhere but he does this just to impress those that are foolish enough to be impressed by this traitor.
Vermonters better wake up and begin to clean house of all the rinos and the liars in the Republican party…
Just remember there was a list of rinos that signed on with Phil Scott to remove Donald Trump from office early….
They couldn’t wait to get us in the mess we’re in today…
And of course, you don’t hear a peek from the Three Stooges, Balint, Sanders and Welsh, who claim to be steadfastly representing the people of Vermont. Yeah, right…
I just read a report that many of them are on the known or suspected terrorist list that have been caught on the Northern Border, my question is how many got away and where are they now? God help this country because our current government isn’t! He’s too busy trying to fast tract them to citizenship.
Yes, this is what you get from open borders…….thank Feckless Joe Biden !!
Without Borders, you have no country…………….that’s their plan.