.RepStefanik said her upstate NY district is bearing the brunt of a budding illegal immigration crisis at the Canadian border. “Joe Biden's failure to deal with the southern border has had huge security impacts on the northern border,” Stefanik said.
Rep. Elise Stefanik , chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, blamed the Biden administration's response to the southern border crisis, wherein federal police have encountered noncitizens trying to enter the United States illegally more than 5 million times since 2021, for leading Mexican cartels now to try out smuggling across the northern border.
“The cartels are paying attention to where our border does not have the resources we need,” Stefanik said, citing information she said regional Border Patrol officials shared with her during a meeting several weeks earlier. “We had previously, obviously, seen significant cartel activity on the southern border, but the fact that they're now focused on the challenges on the northern border — that is very concerning to me.
The 5,500-mile northern border stretches nearly three times as long as the 1,950-mile Mexico border. Border Patrol agents are stationed from Washington state to Maine but by far fewer numbers than on the southern border.
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