US Customs and Border Protection recently 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
The individuals were transported on a CBP-contracted flight, the source told CNN. The US Border Patrol has seen an increase in migrant crossings in the northern region, including in the Swanton Sector where its chief patrol agent, Robert Garcia, recently took to Twitter to say the flow of migrants was “unprecedented.” The Swanton region includes parts of northern New York and New Hampshire and all of Vermont, according to the CBP’s website.
The 34 people flown to Texas had been recently apprehended by US Border Patrol after crossing the US border with Canada, according to the source. The flying of migrants from the agency’s northern region to its southern region is not unique, the source said. It’s a practice the agency calls decompression, which is an effort to move migrants out of areas that are at capacity and to areas with room for processing. “Transfers amongst Border Patrol Sectors are a common operational strategy.
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