" Border Patrol working in the north of the US have reported a 743 percent rise in migrant encounters compared to the same period a year ago.
Robert Garcia, the chief patrol agent for the Swanton Sector - which covers Vermont, New York and New Hampshire
- said he was troubled by the increasing popularity of the people-smuggling route."
" He (Robert Garcia) warned traffickers are exploiting desperate asylum seekers with potentially lethal consequences, amid freezing temperatures and dangerous passages."
Here's what we know: they're taking the more expensive and harder route to illegally enter the Untied States. Why? One reason could be because they don't want to risk getting caught. There are others... And yeah, some 'feel' more like security threats.