Immigration Watch International (2): Crisis by Design: Canadian Border Sees Overwhelming Flood Of Illegal Immigrants

Monday, April 3, 2023

Crisis by Design: Canadian Border Sees Overwhelming Flood Of Illegal Immigrants

Internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal a significant spike in illegal border crossings from Canada into the United States during this fiscal year, with over 3,200 illegal immigrants apprehended since October 2022.

This record-breaking influx has strained law enforcement resources already overwhelmed by the southern border crisis.

According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, there were 2,238 migrant encounters on the US-Canadian border in the entire 2022 fiscal year and 916 the year before.

Every month of the 2023 fiscal year has broken records for illegal entries from the northern border, with no signs of slowing down.

In response, the White House has directed two dozen CBP staff, some previously stationed at the southern border, to stations near the Canadian border.

This move follows reports of migrants traveling to Canada from Mexico to more easily illegally cross into the United States.

A senior DHS official, speaking anonymously, stated, “The situation at the southern border has spilled across all borders.”

The most vulnerable section of the northern border is the Swanton Sector, encompassing Vermont and parts of New York and New Hampshire that border Canada.

DHS estimates show a more than 2,000% increase in illegal border crossings in this sector since the start of the fiscal year, accounting for over 60% of all such crossings from Canada.

With only about 2,000 Border Patrol agents stationed at the Canadian border and roughly 450 on duty at any given time, resources such as drones and fencing available in Texas and Arizona are lacking.

As the northern border situation worsens, Border Patrol struggles to respond.

House Republicans held a hearing on northern border security, during which immigration experts and the Border Patrol union president testified that cartels and smugglers are exploiting the lack of attention on the Canada-US border.

Rep. Mike Kelly (R., Penn.) highlighted a nearly 600% increase in drug smuggling seizure weight, excluding marijuana, along the northern border between fiscal years 2021 and 2022.

Last year, authorities seized 14 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill over 3 million people. In the 2021 fiscal year, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, mostly attributable to fentanyl.

Under President Joe Biden, more than 5.5 million migrant encounters have been recorded at both northern and southern borders, marking the highest number in US history, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Additionally, at least 1.2 million “got aways” were reported by CBP, referring to illegal immigrants detected but ultimately not detained.

Brandon Judd, president of the Border Patrol union, testified before the House, calling for increased agency funding to secure the northern border.

With only about 450 agents on duty at any one time to patrol the nearly 5,500-mile US-Canada land and water border, Judd argued that the current situation is “absolutely unsustainable.”

The White House has falsely claimed there are at least 23,000 agents patrolling the nation’s borders.

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz oversees roughly 19,000 agents and has called for funding to hire at least 3,000 more.

https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/crisis-design-northern-border-sees-overwhelming-flood-illegal-immigrants-law-enforcement-strained

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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