Illegal immigrant crossings at a northern border sector reached a "record-breaking milestone" last month, according to Border Patrol Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia.Garcia wrote in a social media post on Tuesday that the Swanton Sector experienced a significant increase in illegal alien encounters."Another record-breaking milestone in northern border history! Swanton Sector continues to encounter an unprecedented number of undocumented migrants, with well over 1,400 apprehensions in the month of April, surpassing the total number of apprehensions of FY 21 and FY 22 combined," he stated. Another record-breaking milestone in northern border history!Swanton Sector continues to encounter an unprecedented number of undocumented migrants,\u00a0with well over 1,400 apprehensions\u00a0in the month of April, surpassing the total number of apprehensions of FY 21 and FY 22 combined. — (@) 'It was a flood we had never seen before.'The sector witnessed 365 encounters in fiscal year 2021 and 1,065 in 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection data. The following year, that number skyrocketed to 6,925. Over the first seven months of fiscal year 2024, the Swanton Sector has already executed more than 6,500 illegal alien apprehensions. This year is on track to far outpace 2023's record-breaking stats. From April 28 through May 4, the sector apprehended 492 illegal immigrants, Garcia noted."Since 1924, the U.S. Border Patrol has been entrusted with safeguarding the American homeland. Despite a century of changes, Swanton Sector's commitment to upholding our core values of vigilance, integrity and service to country has remained constant," Garcia stated in an April post on X.The Swanton Sector comprises eight stations that support several counties in New York and New Hampshire and the entire state of Vermont. The area includes 295 miles of border, including 203 miles of land and 92 miles of water boundary.Champlain Border Patrol agents, who cover one of the sector's eight stations, detained 220 illegal immigrants over just one week in April. The prior month, the station apprehended 158 illegal aliens from 14 different countries, Garcia stated.Erik Lavallee, the Border Patrol agent in charge of the U.S. Border Patrol Beecher Falls Station in the Swanton Sector, told WBZ-TV in March, "It was a flood we had never seen before. It was an exponential shift, something we were not expecting, and it just hit us hard.""We understand completely that the northern border issues versus the southern border issues are apples and oranges. However, that being said, having been up in this sector for almost 20 years, I have never seen anything like it," he added.According to Border Patrol, the vast majority of illegal immigrants crossing the northern border are from India, Bangladesh, Haiti, and Venezuela.Lavallee told WBZ that most of the illegal aliens are single adult men, many of whom are involved in human smuggling."We know there are multiple organizations that are utilizing Canada to smuggle individuals into the United States," he stated.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Airbus taking its “Racer” aircraft for a test flight. | Image: Airbus Airbus has a new aircraft that’s half helicopter and half airplane, designed to speed up flight times for emergency responders. The company calls it the Racer: it has wings like a plane, forward-facing rotors, plus top helicopter blades that seriously make it look like a baby of two aircraft. Today, Airbus is sharing its one-off working demonstration model of the Racer in France’s southern port city of Marseille for the first time, Reuters reports. It follows new flight images and video posted by Airbus earlier this week that shows how it can take off like a helicopter and make a smooth landing without a long runway. The Racer had its first flight in April. In an email to The Verge, Airbus Helicopters head of external communications... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images For years, autonomous vehicles have operated in relative obscurity. With few vehicles on the road and a laissez-faire attitude among government regulators, automakers and big tech firms have been free to test — and even commercially deploy — with little oversight. Well, those days are done. In rapid succession, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened investigations into almost all the major companies testing autonomous vehicles as well as those that offer advanced driver-assist systems in their production cars. Tesla, Ford, Waymo, Cruise, and Zoox are all being probed for alleged safety lapses, with the agency examining hundreds of crashes, some of which have been fatal. In rapid succession, NHTSA opened... Continue reading…

Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images The Senate Rules Committee passed three bills that aim to safeguard elections from deception by artificial intelligence, with just months to go before Election Day. The bills would still need to advance in the House and pass the full Senate to become law, creating a time crunch for rules around election-related deepfakes to take effect before polls open across the country in November. The vote happened on the same day that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and three bipartisan colleagues released a roadmap for how Congress should consider regulating AI. The document lays out priorities and principles for lawmakers to consider but leaves the crafting of specific bills to the committees. The three election bills passed by the... Continue reading…

Ahead of the long-anticipated new CarPlay experience coming to some vehicles later this year, Apple has announced exclusive new features that will be available to your car alongside iOS 18. While all the new features for this upcoming operating system will be announced during the WWDC 2024 keynote, Apple has already unveiled some of the accessibility functions that will be coming to the iPhone, iPad, Apple Vision Pro, and CarPlay. For CarPlay specifically, Apple has announced three new features: Voice Control, Color Filters, and Sound Recognition. Here's how they will work. Image source: Apple Inc. Voice Control: With Voice Control, users can navigate CarPlay and control apps with just their voice.  Sound Recognition: With Sound Recognition, drivers or passengers who are deaf or hard of hearing can turn on alerts to be notified of car horns and sirens. Color Filters: For users who are colorblind, Color Filters make the CarPlay interface visually easier to use, with additional visual accessibility features including Bold Text and Large Text. Of course, Apple has even more to announce for CarPlay with iOS 18. All of the new features will be known during WWDC 2024. However, over the past few years, Cupertino has unveiled the upcoming accessibility features ahead of its Worldwide Developer's Conference. So far, BGR has learned that Apple plans several AI features for iOS 18, with major revamps for its built-in apps, such as Notes, Voice Memo, Calendar, Freeform, Safari, and more. We'll keep covering the latest news regarding Apple's upcoming software updates as we learn more about them. And if you want to discover new tips for Apple CarPlay, these are my 8 favorite tricks you probably don’t know about, including how to find your parked car, Focus Mode deep integration, finding EV charging stations, and so much more. Below, you can learn all these tips. Don't Miss: My 8 favorite Apple CarPlay tricks you probably don’t know about The post These 3 new CarPlay features are coming to your vehicle later this year appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $3 Alexa smart plugs, Peloton sale, $250 HP laptop, Sony XM5 headphones, more Best Fire TV Stick deals for May 2024 Today’s deals: $50 off new Beats Solo 4, $249 iPad 9th-Gen, $19 Roku Express, $180 ASUS laptop, more Best Apple deals for May 2024