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Despite our relatively narrow border with Canada, Vermont ranked third in northern border illegal border crossings from 2022-24 and three months of FY 2025, the Center Square news service reported May 15.
Vermont had 59,298 encounters during that period, compared to just 82 in New Hampshire, which has a narrow border with Canada and no cross-border interstate highway. Vermont has two interstate crossings.
When releasing the latest apprehension data for April, the Trump administration also released data by state for the last administration through the fiscal year to date. The federal fiscal year goes from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
For fiscal years 2022 through 2024 and three months of fiscal 2025 (Oct. – Dec. 2024), nearly 701,000 illegal border crosser apprehensions/encounters were reported in 14 northern border states.
From west to east, they totaled:
- Alaska: 6,648
- Washington: 120,720
- Idaho: 529
- Montana: 30,474
- North Dakota: 13,788
- Minnesota: 7,483
- Wisconsin: 111
- Michigan: 44,011
- Ohio: 1,020
- Pennsylvania: 17,282
- New York: 342,488
- Vermont: 59,298
- New Hampshire: 82
- Maine: 57,058
Nearly half of all northern border apprehensions were reported in New York. Washington, Vermont, Maine and Montana recorded the next most.
As the border crisis unfolded under the Biden administration, most congressional investigations and reports and news reports solely focused on the southwest border, largely ignoring the northern border.
Yet the greatest number of U.S. states, 14, share the longest international border in the world with Canada, totaling 5,525 miles.
It remains largely unmanned and unprotected, The Center Square has reported for four years, highlighting unprecedented illegal entries, threats of terrorism and lack of operational control there. Officials have explained that the apprehension data represents a fraction of illegal border crossers – they don’t know how many have really come through largely remote areas where one Border Patrol agent may be responsible for patrolling several hundred miles, The Center Square has reported.
Much of this story was sourced directly from a May 15 news story by Bethany Blankley.
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Could it have anything to do with our laws?
That we are sanctuary for people who are not citizens of the United States?
That we turn a blind eye to drug and crime? That we are an easy patsy due to our lack of respect for law and order?
59,000+ illegals….And that we are probably paying illegals to remain here and giving them free healthcare, education, giving them free $$$ towards food and board and let’s not forget a free gender reassignment surgery and reversal procedures as well!!! I’m hoping DOGE has gone threw Vermont welfare, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid accounts to uncover the fraud and abuse thats going on and the US senate makes our Vermont senators come clean with it all thru reconciliation to prevent it from ever happening again. I sure would like to see those billions of dollars savings to be all for not. The democrats will just revert back to their old ways and we will go back to face a bigger deficit and subsequent bankruptcy if things don’t change soon.