Yesterday, we discussed the record-setting month that the Swanton Sector of our northern border experienced in May. Last month, more than 3,000 illegal migrants came down through that sector, which includes parts of New York and New Hampshire and all of Vermont. So far this fiscal year, Swanton has seen more than 10,000 encounters with illegal migrants entering the US.
Swanton is not the only northern sector experiencing record-breaking illegal border crosssings. Far to the west is the 310-mile border between Canada and North Dakota. Illegal traffic from the north along that section has increased steadily over recent years and is now surging. According to US officials, there were 4,444 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2023, a huge increase over the 2,127 in fiscal year 2022 and 548 in fiscal year 2021. The current year shows every indication of the surge continuing.
Yesterday, the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement met remotely in Grand Forks to discuss “The Biden Border Crisis: North Dakota Perspectives.” At the meeting, ND’s Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley told the assembly:
The situation has deteriorated significantly in recent years, and the current situation is untenable with millions of illegal entrants streaming across the America’s southwest border. North Dakota is already experiencing negative law enforcement impacts as a result of the Biden Administration’s refusal to shut down the border, but my concern is that the worst is yet to come, both in the context of street crimes and violence as well as in the arena of America’s national security. [Emphasis added.]
In addition, Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Kelly, the co-chair of the Northern Border Security Caucus, noted that there has been a 485-percent increase in northern land border encounters since January 2021 and that 90 percent of terror watchlist suspects entering the U.S. are being caught at northern ports of entry.
The US has lengthy borders with two countries, totalling 1,954 miles (border with Mexico) and 5,525 (Canada), not to mention 95,471 miles of coastline. As has been said throughout the Biden regime, we are all border states now.
For more, see Newsweek.