Illegal crossings at US-Canada border on pace to shatter 2023 record

Border Patrol encounters of migrants crossing the northern border are on pace to hit a new record this fiscal year.

Agents recorded 9,460 migrant encounters at the US-Canadian border between October 2023 and April 2024, with five months remaining in the fiscal year, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data updated Wednesday.

For comparison, in all of fiscal year 2023, agents recorded 10,021 illegal crossings at the northern border, which marked a new record for the agency.

One of the hardest-hit areas of the northern border is the Swanton sector — which encompasses parts of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire — and had more than 1,400 illegal migrant apprehensions in April, surpassing the totals from fiscal years 2021 and 2022 combined.