In this space we have commented occasionally on the somewhat surprising uptick in illegal traffic across the U.S.-Canadian border.
For example, on February 21, there was “U.S. Now Besieged on Three Fronts,” which revealed that more than 1,500 encounters of illegal aliens had been recorded in New York’s Swanton sector up to that point in Fiscal Year 2023, an increase of 846 percent over the same period in FY 2022.
And just prior to that piece, we published the even more surprising “Migrants, Disappointed with U.S., Again Head North — to Canada,” which detailed how some migrants, disappointed with the conditions they had encountered in New York City, were actually illegally headed north into Canada, in hopes of better conditions and more freebies.
The suddenly active frontier in the Swanton Sector is still experiencing a mere sprinkle compared to the tsunami occurring in the south. Nevertheless, it has caught the attention of a few U.S. politicians. U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), for example, meeting on March 3 with Customs and Border Protection agents in Buffalo and Rochester, said:
The worsening crisis at our Northern border is real. Our CBP agents face unprecedented challenges because of Joe Biden’s failure to address his disastrous open border policies.
Additionally, state Senate Republican Minority Leader Rob Ortt attended the Buffalo meeting with Tenney and the CBP officials, declared:
Albany Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies have already endangered public safety in our communities.
The Democrat and Chronicle, a New York newspaper owned by USA Today, reported on its website yesterday that the increase in illegal cross-border traffic began only recently, in June 2022. Since then, it has continued to grow, even through the winter months where sub-freezing temperatures in the region predominate. As noted above, from October through January, more than 1,500 encounters had been recorded. About two-thirds of those involved citizens of Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala.
And, as to the “reverse” northbound migration also mentioned above, that’s not really all that hard to understand. The Ottawa government, even more migrant happy than Washington if that’s possible, has vowed to accept nearly 1.5 million immigrants by 2025. At the rate things are going, they’ll get that and then some. Coming to (North) America is all the rage.