Juno News - Illegal Indian migrants are SURGING the US border

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.

Juno News - September 05, 2024

Illegal Indian migrants are SURGING the US border

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