The migrants had been bussed north from Texas as part of an operation to disperse border-crossers among ‘sanctuary cities’
After explaining that Denver already has “too many migrants” and that resources are sapped, Carrera ends his speech by asking, “Okay, who wants to travel to different cities where there is more work?”
In comments to a local NBC affiliate, the City of Denver said that it wasn’t their policy to send migrants directly to Canadian cities, but they will distribute free bus tickets to U.S. stops that are close to the Canadian border, if that’s what migrants want.
It’s not the first time that a U.S. city has been caught attempting to alleviate shelter space by exporting migrants to Canada.
And it also occurs amid a record-breaking surge of illegal migrants going the other direction.
Last month, U.S. border agents in New York, New Hampshire and Vermont all reported arresting record numbers of migrants entering illegally from Canada.
In 2023, 7,000 migrants were arrested attempting to illegally enter those states via Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick — a number that was higher than the last 12 years combined.
“I have never seen anything like it,” Erik Lavallee, a Vermont-based U.S. Border Patrol Agent, told CBS last month.
Just last week, a social media post by the United States Border Patrol reported apprehending an SUV packed with nine U.K. nationals that was attempting to enter from Quebec by smashing its way through a farm on the Vermont border.
In the Denver case, however, the migrants had come to the U.S. via its southern border, which is experiencing a simultaneous surge in illegal crossings that is exponentially higher than anything coming from Canada.
According to February figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 7 million people — an amount roughly equivalent to the population of Quebec — have illegally crossed the southwestern U.S. border in just the last three years.
Beginning in 2022, this has prompted Texas Governor Greg Abbott to send busloads of migrants to northern states — particularly to jurisdictions that have declared themselves “sanctuary cities” where local law enforcement are ordered not to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law.
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