Important Takeaways:

• Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more migrants crossing the Canadian Border into the U.S. this year than in the past twelve years combined, according to the sector chief patrol agent.
• Unofficial Border Patrol reports reveal that Swanton Sector agents apprehended more than 4,000 migrants during the first five months of FY24, which began on October 1, 2023. This is up by more than 100 percent from the same period in record-shattering FY23.
• “It was a flood we had never seen before. It was an exponential shift, something we were not expecting and it just hit us hard,”
• “The people here that we’re seeing for the most part, they’re trying to find that vulnerability and come into the United States without detection.”
• “Border Patrol said they have arrested individuals from 66 different countries, including India, Bangladesh, Haiti, and Venezuela,”

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