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The number of migrants crossing the northern border is growing: many Mexicans are flying to Canada to enter the US.

2023-02-09T13:56:50.869Z


A one-way plane ticket from Mexico to Montreal or Toronto costs about $350 and the prospects of not being returned under Title 42 are much better.


By Didi Martinez and Julia Ainsley -

NBC News

The number of migrants crossing the border from Canada to the US is increasing - by a sector by more than 700% - as more Mexicans desperate to enter the US fly into Canada and attempt to cross in freezing temperatures .

A family recently detained by Border Patrol in Vermont was carrying an 8-month-old baby at -4 degrees Fahrenheit.

A family photo shared by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Facebook showed a man and woman carrying the baby and a 2-year-old boy in their arms through snow and ice. In the darkness of the night.

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Arrests in the area where the family was found, known as the Swanton Sector, which includes sections of Vermont, New York and New Hampshire, have risen to 1,146 from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2022, compared to just 136 the year before.

Across the northern border, crossings from Canada to the US have increased from 16,000 to 42,000 in the same time period, according to CBP data. 

Mexicans are by far the top nationality crossing into the US in the Swanton sector, followed by Haitians and Guatemalans, according to CBP data.

US Border Patrol cameras capture migrants crossing the border into the United States near Mooers, New York, during a winter storm last December. US Border Patrol Swanton Sector via Facebook

As the Biden administration continues to use COVID-19 restrictions through Title 42 policy to block immigrants at the southern border, Mexicans at those crossings are turned away more than any other nationality, constituting more than 60%. of all expulsions. 

But for those who can afford a one-way plane ticket of about $350 from Mexico to Montreal or Toronto, their prospects of not being returned under Title 42 are much better.

An immigrant, whose last name is Cruz and who was recently detained by Border Patrol and named in a court filing, told border agents that he and his wife entered Canada legally by flying to Toronto. 

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The couple had trouble finding work in Canada, Cruz told border agents, so they attempted to cross into the US before being apprehended, according to the court filing. 

Like migrants trying to cross the southern border, organized criminal organizations are also involved in smuggling migrants into Canada.

Night cameras along the US-Canada border capture a family with an 8-month-old and a 2-year-old crossing south into Newport, Vermont, on February 3. US Border Patrol Swanton Sector via Facebook

Cruz told border agents that he had wired a man $1,000 as a deposit so he and his wife could enter the US, with the understanding that he would pay another $1,000 after crossing.

He had hoped that he and his wife would eventually be brought to live and work in New York, he said, before being pulled over in Derby Line, Vermont, driving with a Chilean national, a man believed to be the smuggler he paid. 

“This area has been used in the past for people smuggling,” a border agent told the court. 

Border agents say they are concerned about freezing temperatures causing hypothermia for migrants, especially those with small children.

More and more families are crossing with their minor children through the northern border.

From October 1 to December 31, 2022, 6,709 migrant families with children crossed into the United States from Canada, compared to 1,500 during the same time period in 2021. CBP has not yet released data on the number of undocumented migrants who they tried to cross the northern or southern borders in January.

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Across the Vermont border, in the small Quebecois town of Saint-Armand, a farmer told Noticias Telemundo's sister network NBC News via Instagram that it's not uncommon for locals to see migrants crossing the border. in both directions.

He said locals know to leave migrants alone when they see them crossing into the United States from Canada. 

"Never take someone to the border," they told me. Let them walk. Which is fine, since it's two minutes," said David McMillan, owner of Hayfield Farm, a property less than 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) from the line between the US and Canada.

Source: telemundo

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