Lost amidst the din of CBP’s apprehension numbers at the southwest border is a surge of migrants at the northern border — the 5,525-mile one the United States shares with Canada.
By comparison, the southwest border is 1,954 miles long, and runs along the Rio Grande and the Sonoran Desert, with the boot-heel of New Mexico and eastern Arizona thrown in for good measure.
Northern sector Border Patrol apprehensions saw a much more modest 144 percent increase between FY 2021 (916) and FY 2022 (2,238), but already in the first four months of FY 2023, agents at the northern border have nearly hit last year’s apprehension total, with 2,227 illegal entrants caught there through the end of January.
Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement.
Notably, however, as the Congressional Research Service explains, the agreement applies only to aliens “who present themselves at ports of entry on the U.S.-Canada land border and to aliens in transit during removal from the U.S. or Canada”, and does not apply to illegal entrants to either country.
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