by Bob Price
Border Patrol agents in the Swanton Sector established yet another record with the apprehension of more than 3,300 migrants in June. The sector, which covers the Canadian border with Vermont, New Hampshire, and eastern New York, is now the fifth-busiest of the 20 U.S. Border Patrol sectors.
According to the CBP Nationwide Encounters report for June, Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a record-setting 3,309 migrants. This is the largest number of migrant encounters in the sector’s history and represents an increase of nearly 14 percent over the previous month’s record of 2,911 migrant encounters.
Agents in the Swanton Sector apprehended nearly as many migrants in the past two months as were encountered in all of FY23, which ended on September 30, 2023. The June encounters report is up by 425 percent over June 2023.