A Border Patrol sector on the United State’s northern border with Canada recorded more illegal alien apprehensions in the 2024 fiscal year than in the last 17 years combined.
Agents in the Swanton Border Patrol sector, which covers Vermont, New Hampshire, and part of New York, recorded 19,222 illegal immigrant apprehensions in fiscal year 2024, marking a drastic uptick from previous years. The illegal migrants came from 97 different countries around the world.
Border Patrol Agents in Swanton Sector have apprehended more than 19,222 subjects from 97 different countries since October 1, 2023, which is more than its last 17 fiscal years combined.
Report suspicious border activity in Swanton Sector: 1-800-689-3362 @USBPChief@CBP@DHSgov pic.twitter.com/BhUaYYi15B— Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia (@USBPChiefSWB) October 2, 2024
Border Patrol recorded 6,925 apprehensions in the Swanton sector during fiscal year 2023, which was a drastic increase from the 1,065 in fiscal year 2022.
Apprehensions in the northern border sector experienced a surge after the Biden-Harris administration entered the White House. While 1,065 apprehensions were recorded in fiscal year 2019, the highest of any year under the Trump presidency, the figure for fiscal year 2024 under the Biden-Harris administration marks more than 18 times as many apprehensions.
The apprehension totals from the Swanton Sector come as the Biden-Harris administration has presided over an historic surge of illegal immigration. More than 10 million people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since President Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
The figures pose a stark contrast to the total 415,000 reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 during the Trump administration. Illegal immigration has now become one of the top issues facing voters as they decide who to support in the November election.
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The surge in illegal immigration has been so drastic under the Biden-Harris administration that the foreign-born population residing in the United States spiked to an all time high of 51.6 million people as of March 2024. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analyzed the data, estimating that almost 58 percent of the increase in the foreign born population under the Biden-Harris administration was due to illegal immigration.
CIS also found that “only 46 percent of the foreign-born who arrived in 2022 or later were employed in the first part of 2024” and that only eight percent of those who are not currently working say they are looking for work.
Vice President Kamala Harris has attempted to pivot on the critical election year issue and present herself as a proponent of border enforcement, even resorting to running an advertisement that features an image of President Donald Trump’s border wall.
The Harris campaign, meanwhile, refuses to provide the Democrat’s stance on a controversial program that’s allowed roughly half a million migrants to be flown into the interior of the United States.