Agents added to northern US border amid border crossing surge

Federal authorities have added 25 border guards to a section of the US’s northeastern border with Quebec in response to a surge in illegal crossings.

The team, which began work on Monday, will help contain and stop human smuggling in the sector, which includes the border areas of New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and parts of upstate New York, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said in a statement. .

“While the number of detentions is low compared to other areas with irregular migratory flows, detentions in the Swanton sector represent a big change in the area,” the spokesman said.

Last month, the death of a Mexican who had just entered Vermont illegally from Canada highlighted a surge in illegal border crossings between Quebec and parts of New England, officials said. It was the first recent death of a person who illegally crossed the border in the area.

US Customs and Border Protection statistics show that agents in the sector delayed 1,513 illegal border crossings between October 1, 2022 and January 31, 2023, up from 160 in the same period a year earlier. But the total number of detainees along the entire northern border this fiscal year, 2,227, is a small fraction of those detained along the US-Mexico border during the same period, 762,383.

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