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Originally Posted by Fuzz

Oh look, someone wrote an article on it today backing up my point.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...-what-to-know/

lol.

Illegal crossings at northern U.S. border continue to skyrocket, hundreds of terror suspects arrested.

WBZ visited the Swanton Sector last March, when illegal border crossings were climbing, and Border Patrol had already arrested a record 7,000 people in fiscal year 2023.

"It was a flood we had not seen before. It was an exponential shift," said Erik Lavallee at the time. Lavallee is the Border Patrol Agent in Charge of the Beecher Falls Station in Vermont.
19,000 people arrested in 2024

Since then, illegal crossings have continued to skyrocket with roughly 19,000 people arrested in fiscal year 2024. That is about the same amount as the last 17 years combined. Although, Customs and Border Protection notes that the Swanton Sector has seen a 52-percent reduction in encounters since the height of crossings in June.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...ects-arrested/

Canada and the U.S. must work together to confront a surge of migrant encounters at their shared border, one expert says, particularly after a man was arrested in Quebec for planning to commit a terrorist attack in New York City.

Keith Cozine, an associate professor of homeland security at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., says while the issue may not yet damage the Canada-U.S. relationship, a lot depends on how it is politicized in both countries in the coming months.

There have been 19,498 encounters of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. from Canada in the most recent fiscal year to date, between October 2023 and July 2024, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

That’s a 95-per cent increase from the previous full fiscal year. When comparing the same 10-month period, the number jumped 155 per cent year-over-year.

The numbers are just a drop in the bucket compared to those at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, which has seen 1.4 million encounters so far this year. But southern border encounters have dropped dramatically since 2023 — from more than two million — at the same time northern encounters are on the rise.

But Cozine says more work is needed, particularly on the Canadian side, to improve security screenings and intelligence gathering to prevent potential attacks.

“I think there is some truth to the idea that screening at Canadian ports of entry are a little bit lax when compared to United States,” he said.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10754863/...rder-security/