US immigration authorities have transferred 34 migrants from border with Canada to Texas for processing | CNN

CNN
 — 

US Customs and Border Safety just lately transferred 34 Mexican nationals from the Swanton Border Patrol Sector on the US border with Canada, to El Paso, Texas, for immigration processing at a southern border facility, in line with a federal legislation enforcement supply aware of operations.

The people have been transported on a CBP-contracted flight, the supply instructed CNN.

The US Border Patrol has seen a rise in migrant crossings within the northern area, together with within the Swanton Sector the place its chief patrol agent, Robert Garcia, just lately took to Twitter to say the circulation of migrants was “unprecedented.” The Swanton area contains components of northern New York and New Hampshire and all of Vermont, in line with the CBP’s web site.

Previously 5 months, brokers within the Swanton Border Patrol Sector have encountered 1,932 individuals crossing into the US from Canada, that’s practically equal to the final three fiscal years mixed, when that quantity was 2,004.

In January, the Border Patrol for the Swanton area recorded 367 encounters with migrants, up from January 2022. In the meantime, encounters final month soared 945% to 418 from 40 encounters in February 2022.

The 34 individuals flown to Texas had been just lately apprehended by US Border Patrol after crossing the US border with Canada, in line with the supply.

The flying of migrants from the company’s northern area to its southern area isn’t distinctive, the supply mentioned. It’s a follow the company calls decompression, which is an effort to maneuver migrants out of areas which can be at capability and to areas with room for processing.

“Transfers amongst Border Patrol Sectors are a typical operational technique. The operational want for these sector-to-sector transfers is assessed each day based mostly on the processing functionality and facility capability of every sector,” a CBP spokesperson mentioned.

The flying of migrants from the US northern border to Texas for processing and, if eligible, for expulsion or deportation began just lately.

CBP didn’t point out what number of whole transfers from the northern border have taken place year-to-date.