Saw this on the news the other night. Seems that illegal crossings at the northern border from Canada are sharply on the rise. Canada recently revised their entry requirements, and all that is required traveling from Mexico to Canada is a entry fee.
A plane ticket and an entry fee is a hell of a lot cheaper (and safer) than paying a coyote 3,000 to smuggle you across the border.
If the southern border wall is gonna work, we're gonna need one at the northern border as well.
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows
Border Patrol Agent Richard Ross, who runs the station in Newport, Vermont, part of the Swanton sector, told NBC News he thought the apprehensions were "definitely trending up." He added that the type of apprehensions agents were seeing were "very organized," sometimes using smuggling organizations.
Ross said he believed there may be a perception that traveling from Canada was "safer" and the increase could be attributed to recent immigration changes in Canada that allow those from some countries, such as Mexico and Romania, to enter without a visa.
He said some immigrants looking to get into the U.S. illegally could pay a few hundred dollars for a flight to Canada, pay a small electronic travel authorization fee and make their way into the United States.
Some smuggling agencies were "exploiting the fact that there's an easier way to make it legally into Canada and then that provides some clientele to then be smuggled into the U.S.," he said.
A plane ticket and an entry fee is a hell of a lot cheaper (and safer) than paying a coyote 3,000 to smuggle you across the border.
If the southern border wall is gonna work, we're gonna need one at the northern border as well.
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows
Border Patrol Agent Richard Ross, who runs the station in Newport, Vermont, part of the Swanton sector, told NBC News he thought the apprehensions were "definitely trending up." He added that the type of apprehensions agents were seeing were "very organized," sometimes using smuggling organizations.
Ross said he believed there may be a perception that traveling from Canada was "safer" and the increase could be attributed to recent immigration changes in Canada that allow those from some countries, such as Mexico and Romania, to enter without a visa.
He said some immigrants looking to get into the U.S. illegally could pay a few hundred dollars for a flight to Canada, pay a small electronic travel authorization fee and make their way into the United States.
Some smuggling agencies were "exploiting the fact that there's an easier way to make it legally into Canada and then that provides some clientele to then be smuggled into the U.S.," he said.
