Dog Finds Migrants Dead in the Woods
Published Mar 29, 2024 at 9:17 AM EDT
Updated Mar 29, 2024 at 11:01 AM EDT
By Nick Mordowanec
Apolice dog discovered on Monday the dead bodies of two migrants in a New York county that is approximately 30 miles from the Canadian border.
Illegal migrant encounters into New York, mostly conducted through the northern border with Canada, have increased drastically the past three years—jumping from 12,669 in fiscal year to 2021 to 81,078 in 2022 and 129,247 in 2023, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Between October and February of the current fiscal year, there have been 46,113 encounters.
Illegal entry through the northern border compiles the crux of migrant cases, including over 90,000 incidents reported in the 2023 fiscal year and more than 28,000 since October 2023.
On Monday, New York State Police (NYSP) and federal Border Patrol agents found two deceased migrants in a wooded area off a road in Mooers, a city in Clinton County. They were identified as Abdoulaye Ndoye and Ndongo Sarry, both 25, from Dakar, Senegal. The two were determined via autopsies at different hospitals to have suffered from hypothermia resulting from wet and cold conditions.
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