U.S. federal agents along the Canadian border are on pace to arrest more than 14,000 illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2024, a number that would shatter the record of 10,000 set just last year.

Through the first five months of fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol agents have arrested 6,039 illegals at the northern Border. There were 10,021 all of fiscal year 2023. Especially concerning to Republican lawmakers is that the record pace happened when temperatures reached sub-zero levels, which leaves some lawmakers asking what will the numbers look like when temperatures warm up.

Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Ryan Zinke, R-Mt., co-chairs of the Northern Border Security Caucus, sent a letter Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday documenting their “serious concern” over the “unprecedented surge” along the Canadian Border.

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