Images emerging from trail cams placed on a family farm in a small Vermont town are a stark reminder that border security in the North is also a disaster under the Biden-Harris administration.
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The images come from Newport Center, a town with a population of about 1,500. The cameras are situated roughly 2.5 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border.
The Newport Dispatch reports that multiple cameras on the LeBlanc family farm caught multiple groups of men traversing the property, including one image capturing “what appeared to be several men led by a guide wearing a turban.”
The property owner notes that the man in the turban, eyes glowing in the images, was spotted making separate runs “back and forth” to guide different groups. [Editor’s note: the owner’s last name is written incorrectly in the X post below.]
Imagine this: you live in rural Vermont near the Canadian border. You check your game cameras on your farm to see what the deer are doing before hunting season. You see this.
That’s exactly what happened to Justin LeBranch.
Source: VTDigger by way of the Newport Dispatch. pic.twitter.com/JMTwBMHRhQ
— Old Hollow Tree (@OldHollowTree) October 26, 2024
“When Justin LeBlanc’s sons set up game cameras on their family farm in Newport Center, they weren’t looking to document illegal border crossings,” the outlet writes. “But over several nights, that’s exactly what they captured.”
Actual videos have surfaced on social media.
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LeBlanc indicates that the activity is consistent and widespread, claiming neighbors have witnessed groups of illegal aliens emerging from the woods.
“This is an everyday thing,” he explained. “It’s definitely concerning, and we definitely have an uneasy feeling. You can’t really let the kids go alone anymore. It just puts a spin on things that we’re not used to.”
Trail cam location (roughly) near the Canadian border.
VTDigger published an extensive report in August indicating border patrol agents have been surging to the location as they battle “record numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Canadian border into Vermont and neighboring states.”
A border patrol official overseeing operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, told the outlet his agency has “seen a number of apprehensions that we’ve never seen in our recorded history in this area.”
A farm near Fort Covington, New York, captured similar images of illegal immigrants crossing the Canadian border and into the United States in September. The owner of that property said that his farm had been used as a transit point for their journey, and the groups going through included men, women, and “sometimes children.”
The farm owner providing the above video evidence of the ongoing invasion relayed a particularly frightening scene in which his wife was awoken by their dogs barking at 2 a.m. and found three men standing beside their car.
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“It keeps everyone on edge,” one family member explained.
LeBlanc, though, says the trail cam footage on his property is almost exclusively of men and does not involve families trying to seek asylum.
“Since it’s all men, too, it just makes you wonder what’s really going on here,” he tells The Newport Dispatch.
Data suggests 2024 will be a record-setting year for illegal crossings along the northern border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection charts show the number of encounters in the North steadily rising each year between 2021 and 2024–and a vast majority involve single adults. Northern land border encounters rose from 27,180 in 2021 to a staggering 198.929 in 2024, an increase of over 631 percent.
That’s not a misprint.
We’ll continue monitoring this situation as it develops and alert readers to any further game trail footage, should it emerge on social media.
