U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers search vehicles with the help of a canine at the Peace Bridge Port of Entry in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. U.S. border agents used helicopters and a fixed-wing airplane to round up 124 people earlier this year along the Canada-U.S. border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it recorded a record-high number of encounters with migrants between border posts on the Canada-U.S. border between October 2023 and July of this year. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it recorded a record-high number of encounters with migrants between border posts on the Canada-U.S. border between October 2023 and July of this year.
While the numbers still pale in comparison with the U.S southern border, that's more than twice as many as the 7,630 encountered between border posts during the same time period the previous year.U.S. news coverage of the surge in migration over its northern border intensified over the summer. In an interview with Fox News on Aug. 22, after complaining about illegal migration over the southern border, former president Donald Trump said the U.S.
"But it's not just the Trump campaign. The campaign has indicated also that they have acknowledged that there's concerns on the northern border." "Part of the problem is as the southern border has gotten tighter, the coyotes are telling people to come to Canada and then they try to smuggle them into the United States," said Washington State immigration lawyer Greg Boos.
Poirier said the RCMP used to see more migrants from Mexico until new visa requirements curbed the traffic. In Canada, the responsibility for people coming into the country is divided among four different government bodies: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, which assesses applications; the Canada Border Services Agency, which controls the ports of entry; the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which assists in vetting applications; and the RCMP, which patrols the areas between border posts and investigates crimes like human trafficking.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller has called the number of migrants crossing into the U.S. 'very concerning.'
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