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You Won’t Believe How Many Illegals Crossed This Northern Border Sector

Madeline Leesman
Madeline Leesman  |  October 03, 2024 4:45 PM

In recent months, reports have shown that illegal aliens are crossing the northern border in numbers never before seen. 

Last week, a farmer in New York told Fox News that his property has been “flooded” with illegal immigrants as Townhall covered.

"You have no control over it. You don't know who these people are. Not everybody is a good person," the farmer, Chris Oliver, said in the interview. 

This week, Fox News reported that more than 19,000 illegal aliens have been apprehended by the Swanton Sector, dividing Vermont from Quebec and Ontario, over the past year. 

During fiscal year 2024, which ran from Oct. 1, 2023 through Monday, agents at the U.S. Border Patrol's Swanton Sector along the U.S.-Canadian border caught illegal immigrants from 97 countries, Fox added. 

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This alarming number is more than the past 17 years combined (via Fox News):

The 19,222 migrants caught in the Swanton Sector amounted to more than the past 17 years combined, authorities said. In FY 2020, the agents assigned to the sector apprehended 574 illegal immigrants, followed by 365 the next year.

The number of apprehensions jumped to 1,065 in FY 2022 and 6,925 in FY 2023, according to Border Patrol data.

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The Swanton Sector encompasses 24,000 square miles and includes Vermont, as well as Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence and Herkimer counties of New York and Coos, Grafton and Carroll counties of New Hampshire.

Townhall has covered how the northern border sectors have seen an uptick in illegal alien crossings. 

Last month, Townhall reported how the Biden administration unveiled a plan to expedite the processing of illegal aliens at the U.S.-Canada border in response to the uptick of crossings.

In June, Border Patrol agents even stopped a human smuggling operation on the St. Clair River, which separates Michigan and Ontario.