More migrants are fleeing into Canada across the border than are coming south into the US after President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, sources told The Post.
Homeland Security sources said that there are “lots of northbounders” now running scared and “self-deporting” from the US with Trump back in office.
In a remote stretch of Washington state, border agents report seeing an average of five migrants crossing illegally north into Canada each day.
The numbers were starting to pick up even before the Trump administration began in full force.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported 40 illegal crossings from Washington into British Columbia in January, according to official data.
That same month, Border Patrol agents on the US side in saw 30 migrants crossing south.
Many of the migrants making a run for Canada have some form of temporary status in the US after previously crossing into the US from Mexico, but fear their pending cases in the immigration courts won’t end in their favor, sources said.
The fleeing migrants are hoping to reach Canada before federal immigration agents are able to scoop them up as part of Trump’s mass deportation effort.
“They technically have some sort of status as of right now and the agents do know they’re intending to cross illegally into Canada, but also to get out of the United States to avoid any immigration consequences that may happen if their case isn’t adjudicated in their favor,” said a source.
Even the most remote parts of the 5,500-mile US-Canada border are seeing migrants fleeing north.
In Alberta, Canada, mounted police stumbled upon a group of nine migrants with kids in tow crossing from the US in the middle of a brutal February winter, according to the New York Times.
Canadian border authorities have caught roughly 20 illegal migrants so far this year in Alberta, the Times reported.
The year before, only seven migrants were crossing north in the same region.
It’s a massive turnabout from the northern border under the Biden administration, when federal agents on the US side were seeing record numbers of migrants surging illegally into the US.
Roughly 23,700 illegal migrants were apprehended coming from Canada last fiscal year, compared to just 2,200 in 2022, according to federal data.
But it pales in comparison to the more than one million illegal migrant crossings seen at the southern border last year.
The Trump administration has pressured Canada to enhance its border security to stop the upward trend of the flow of migrants and illicit fentanyl by threatening 25% tariffs.
And now Canada’s border cops are holding up their end of the bargain and looking more closely “at fraudulent asylum claims,” said a Customs and Border Protection source.
Canada has also pledged to commit $900 million to strengthen their border posture to include the purchase of two Black Hawk helicopters and drones.
Canada has also enhanced visa restrictions after migrants exploited the lax admission policies to fly there before crossing illegally into the US.
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