Northern border shaping up as next challenge for Homeland Security Department
Temperatures may have dipped to below zero along the U.S.-Canada border last month, but the pace of illegal immigration was overheated as people poured across the less-protected northern boundary.
Across the entire northern border, agents have encountered more than 2,200 illegal immigrants so far this fiscal year, about equal to all of last year. There were also nearly 700 Chinese, nearly 700 Mexicans, more than 200 Filipinos, more than 150 Brazilians and about 250 Colombians.“You’re seeing some Mexican single adults now going to Canada and coming across the Swanton sector because it’s easy,” said Mark Morgan, who led CBP in the latter part of the Trump administration. “Our southern border, as bad as our southern border is, it’s better than our northern border.
One of them came in 2016 and was still awaiting her immigration court hearing. The other arrived in 2019 and said his immigration court hearing isn’t scheduled until July 2024. The driver obtained a fraudulent green card that he was using to hold down a job, according to court documents. Border Patrol apprehensions at the southern border from those four countries plummeted from more than 84,000 in December to fewer than 12,000 in January.
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