Illegal Migrants From Mexico Allegedly Assault Northern Border Agent

Three illegal migrants from Mexico allegedly assaulted a Border Patrol agent along the northern border on Aug. 20, according to a criminal complaint.

The three illegal migrants assaulted the agent near Churubusco, New York, and attempted to escape, according to the complaint. Border Patrol agents in the Swanton sector, which includes areas of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire have made more than 4,900 arrests of illegal migrants from 68 countries between October 2022 and July, amounting to more apprehensions than the last eight years combined in the region. (RELATED: ‘Clusterf*ck’: Hundreds Of New Yorkers Protest Migrant Shelter At Staten Island School)

Additionally, there were 521 assault incidents against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in fiscal year 2022 and 386 in the first ten months of fiscal year 2023, according to federal data.

The agent was making a vehicle stop when he encountered the group, according to the complaint. The driver and a front seat passenger identified themselves as American citizens.

The agent then asked the three passengers in the backseat, two of which were wearing wet and muddy clothes, where they came from, according to the complaint.

“They don’t speak English. That’s my boyfriend and his family. I came to pick them up from Vermont,” the driver said in response to a question, according to the complaint.

The agent then asked the backseat passengers in Spanish to which two of the individuals responded that they were from Mexico with no legal permission to be in the U.S., according to the complaint. The third individual told the agent that he had been in the U.S. illegally for awhile.

The agent arrested the five individuals when two of the backseat passengers allegedly resisted, but were eventually placed in the patrol vehicle, according to the complaint. As the agent began escorting the third backseat passenger to his car, the other two individuals jumped out and knocked him to the ground.

Then, all three passengers allegedly assaulted the agent, striking him in the body and on the head several times, before taking off by foot, according to the complaint. Two of them were immediately located, while the third was later found by a New York State Police trooper about five miles from the scene.

A greater spike in illegal migration at the U.S.-Canadian border has been taking place in recent years. Migrants often exploit Canada’s lax visa restrictions, such as the travel visa waiver program for Mexican nationals, to fly there and cross into the U.S. illegally along the world’s longest shared border.

“This domino effect all starts on the southwest but then the effects are felt everywhere because we have to use resources to deal with what’s taking place down south, and when you do that, then of course, you leave yourself wide open in other areas, and that’s what we’re seeing on the north right now,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd previously told the DCNF.

Residents living in the Swanton sector were seeing illegal immigration surge even in the snowy winter months, showing the Daily Caller News Foundation earlier this year where the crossings occur on their properties.

“It hasn’t stopped even through the cold and the snow,” Tyson Dumas, a local landowner along the Canadian border in Mooers, New York, previously told the DCNF, adding “I also believe that landowners along the border should get some sort of tax break. We pay crazy taxes and all of this is going on on our land,” he added.

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