Juno News - September 05, 2024


Illegal Indian migrants are SURGING the US border

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Harrison Faulkner
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America s newest border crisis, this one up north. Law enforcement officials in the north country are sounding the alarm as recent data shows an unprecedented rise in the number of illegal crossings on the northern border. Who exactly are these illegal border jumpers and where do they come from?

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00:00:00.000 Illegal border crossings into the United States from Canada have skyrocketed over the past few
00:00:11.560 years and in particular this year. Coincidentally at the same time Canada's own population
00:00:17.600 has skyrocketed with millions of new non-permanent residents. Normally peaceful in picturesque Niagara
00:00:24.840 River tonight running at the center of the northern border's emerging migrant crisis. The number of 0.99
00:00:30.480 people crossing from Canada into New England is rising rapidly. Tonight America's newest border
00:00:36.020 crisis this one up north. It's definitely a huge issue. Law enforcement officials in the north
00:00:40.560 country are sounding the alarm as recent data shows an unprecedented rise in the number of
00:00:45.060 illegal crossings on the northern border. And these people aren't just wandering migrants looking for
00:00:50.740 the American dream. It turns out that last year over 480 migrants who entered the United States
00:00:57.500 from Canada were on the U.S. terror watch list. Last fiscal year Border Patrol apprehended 564 people on
00:01:06.000 the terror watch list. Of them 484 were encountered on the northern border. But who exactly are these
00:01:13.160 illegal border jumpers and where do they come from? Well according to new data from the U.S. Customs and
00:01:18.660 Border Patrol in June alone over 5,000 Indian migrants attempted to enter the United States
00:01:25.380 illegally from Canada. A new record. In just March of this past year over 1,000 migrants were apprehended
00:01:32.960 at the Vermont border crossing with Quebec. The majority of them over 400 were from India. But in
00:01:40.000 that 1,000 group over 40 different countries were represented. So people from all over the world are
00:01:45.940 seeing this loophole here and they're looking to exploit it. Well in fact to no one's surprise the
00:01:50.500 situation doesn't stop there. Now even the United Kingdom is voicing its concerns to Ottawa after a
00:01:57.940 surge of Indians holding Canadian visas while traveling through the U.K. have abandoned their trips to Canada
00:02:04.680 and immediately claimed asylum in the U.K. Over a thousand people have done this by the way
00:02:10.220 prompting the U.K. and the United States to call on Ottawa to strengthen visa measures.
00:02:15.820 The number of Indian nationals seeking asylum in the U.K. during transit to Canada has spiked
00:02:21.040 alarmingly in recent years. In 2022 there was a 136 percent increase in the number of Indians
00:02:28.740 seeking asylum at port in the U.K. compared to the previous year. And by 2023 the number had risen even
00:02:36.640 further with 1,319 Indians seeking asylum in the U.K. many of them Canada-bound transit passengers.
00:02:44.720 So Canada under Justin Trudeau's disastrous open border policies has now become the source of a
00:02:52.820 predominantly Indian-led migrant surge drawing the ire of our two most important allies. Now before we get
00:03:00.560 into the show be sure to drop a like on this video. Help us out by subscribing to the True North
00:03:04.460 YouTube channel and the common question for the episode is this. How should Canada address the
00:03:10.000 surge in southward illegal migrant crossings? Let me know your answer in the comments below and let's
00:03:16.140 get into it. Well according to U.S. Border Patrol officers the majority of people who enter the United
00:03:20.840 States illegally from Canada are involved in human smuggling operations like this. And Eric says most of
00:03:27.960 the people who come are involved in smuggling. This video shows attempted human smuggling in New York
00:03:33.720 last year stopped by Border Patrol. The numbers last year in the Swanton sector alone, that's New York,
00:03:40.700 Vermont and New Hampshire. That area of the United States saw an 800% increase in border crossings from
00:03:48.260 the year prior. Back in February I had the chance to speak with Tom Homan, the former acting director
00:03:53.340 of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement under Donald Trump. And I asked him about this issue exactly.
00:04:00.720 After 9-11, GAO did a study and they said that a terrorist crossing the northern border is 10 times
00:04:10.920 more likely than one crossing the southern border. And the number of people off the terrorist watchers
00:04:14.880 crossing the northern border last year are almost double the southern, but we never talk about it.
00:04:19.040 Crossings in the northern border are up 400 to 600 percent depending on what sector you look at.
00:04:22.740 I grew up near Alex Bay, again in Akwe, Kingston area, and their numbers are sky high. And the problem
00:04:31.700 is with the Canadian border, we got very few border patrol agents up there, and half of them have been
00:04:36.360 assigned to the southern border, which means there's very little patrol on the northern border at all,
00:04:40.700 so it's a big national security vulnerability. But the situation on Canada's west coast is just as bad
00:04:46.300 with human smuggling. There were 42,913 encounters in the 2023 U.S. fiscal year, up from 12,345 two years
00:04:57.820 earlier. In the first half of the current fiscal year, there have been 27,483 encounters. Only 166 people
00:05:07.340 were actually apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in 2021. That number rose to 494 in 2022. In 2023,
00:05:19.740 that number rose again to 1,662. And by May of this year, the number of arrests was already past 1,800.
00:05:31.260 And Matthew Murphy, an assistant special agent with Homeland Security,
00:05:35.900 told CBC News in May of this year that Indians were the number one group seen trying to cross the
00:05:43.020 border illicitly. Border data shows 7,056 encounters with Indian nationals at the B.C. Washington border
00:05:51.180 in the first half of the current U.S. fiscal year. But the latest data, the numbers from June of this
00:05:57.820 year, show that the situation with Indian migrants entering the United States illegally through Canada
00:06:04.460 has reached a tipping point. Over 5,000 Indians were apprehended at the U.S. border after illegally
00:06:10.940 trying to enter the United States on foot. Here is how the English language Indian press have reported
00:06:17.500 on the latest figures. According to Customs and Border Protection, a record high 5,000 undocumented
00:06:24.300 Indians entered the United States from Canada on foot in June alone. For the first time ever,
00:06:31.020 a higher number of Indian immigrants have entered the United States via the Canadian border than the
00:06:37.420 Mexican one. Washington has alerted Ottawa as concerns mount over the Trudeau government's visa policies.
00:06:44.780 Stretching nearly 9,000 kilometers, which is more than twice as long as the U.S.-Mexico border,
00:06:51.260 this vast route has seen an unprecedented surge in undocumented Indian immigrants crossing into the
00:06:56.860 United States. In June 2024, the situation reached a tipping point. That month alone, a record 5,152
00:07:05.900 undocumented Indians crossed from Canada into the U.S. on foot. In 2023, a record 96,917 Indians were
00:07:15.260 apprehended unlawfully crossing from Canada into the U.S. between October 2022 and September 2023.
00:07:22.220 Furthermore, we now know that Indians with Canadian visas are attempting to just claim asylum in the UK
00:07:28.460 and abandon their trips to Canada in transit. And according to Immigration News Canada,
00:07:33.660 asylum claims by Indians at Canadian airports has increased by 500 percent. Meanwhile, the numbers
00:07:41.180 are even crazier for Bangladesh asylum claims and Nigerian asylum claims, increasing over 1200 percent
00:07:49.820 and 700 percent respectively. And by June of this year, the number of Indians claiming asylum in Canada has
00:07:57.500 already more than doubled the previous year's number, which was itself a record. So what happens
00:08:03.020 now for Canada if we don't do anything about this? Well, we already know the domestic situation in
00:08:07.420 Canada when it comes to mass immigration. But if Canada can't get this situation under control 0.83
00:08:12.700 and transnational criminal organizations and human smugglers continue to operate out of Canada
00:08:18.140 by smuggling people into the United States, well, this is going to have an impact on Canada. The United
00:08:22.780 States, especially if Donald Trump is elected as president, is almost certainly going to do
00:08:28.780 something about this situation. And it's not going to be good for Canadians or the Canadian economy.
00:08:32.940 So this is a real situation and one that I hope the Canadian government is taking seriously. All right,
00:08:38.860 everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:08:42.060 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is RADIO.