Northern Border: Illegal crossings this year surpass previous 17 yrs combined

New York Post | Illegal crossings in northern border sector over one year surpass previous 17 years combined. The number of migrants caught crossing a stretch of the US-Canada border that includes northern New York has skyrocketed — increasing more than 50-fold under the Biden-Harris administration. This year, illegal crossings surpassed the number for the last 17 years combined.

The Border Patrol agents in the Swanton sector — which includes more than 200 miles of land border between Maine and the St. Lawrence River in New York — apprehended more than 19,000 illegal migrants from 97 different countries in fiscal year 2024, the Border Patrol chief for the sector, Robert Garcia, said this week.

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