dailycaller.com By Jake Smith
The Biden-Harris administration has repeatedly touted its success in abating the southern border crisis, but it fails to mention that northern border illegal migrant encounters have surged to levels greater than the last three fiscal years combined.
President Joe Biden signed executive actions in June to stem the flow of illegal migration at the southern border, including by raising asylum standards and lowering the number of migrants who are allowed to seek sanctuary. The Biden administration has declared the actions a success as the number of illegal migrant encounters at the southern border has dipped in recent months — but little attention has been paid to the northern border, which is experiencing an exponential surge in illegal immigration this fiscal year and comes with a host of challenges that make it stand out from its southern counterpart. (RELATED: Panama Catching Terror Suspects As It Nabs, Deports US-Bound Illegal Migrants)
“Southern border numbers may be down, but we would expect people’s desire to come here to remain the same,” Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Since the things that apply to the southern border don’t necessarily apply to the northern border, you could certainly see more people there.”
A U.S. Border Patrol Agent patrolling near the U.S.-Canada border. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
There were 3,037 illegal migrant encounters at the northern border in July, up from 926 in January — a 228% increase, according to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data. It’s also a whopping 1033% increase from July 2022, which only saw 268 encounters. There have been a total of 19,498 illegal migrant encounters thus far in fiscal year 2024, more than the last three fiscal years combined.
Further, over 15,000 thousand of the migrants encountered at the northern border are single adults, CBP data shows.
Terrorists or terror-linked individuals continue to try crossing the northern border as well. Approximately 283 migrants on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS) have been apprehended at the northern border so far in fiscal year 2024, 281 of whom were apprehended at legal points of entry. There were a total of 487 migrants on the TSDS that were apprehended in all of fiscal year 2023, roughly double the number of TSDS encounters at the southern border…
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