U.S. authorities say illegal crossings are happening at an unprecedented level.

Across more than 290 miles of international border with Canada, U.S. authorities say illegal crossings are happening at an unprecedented level. Some residents in Derby agree that the situation in their backyard is getting out of hand. Alain De La Breure, who has lived in Derby for four years and whose property sits right on the Canadian border says at all hours of the day, he sees people crossing through his backyard to get into the U.S.   Video from De La Bruere’s home surveillance camera shows four people crossing through his backyard in the middle of the night, loading into a truck outside his home, and speeding away. One of many instances he’s experienced. Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a sharp rise in the number of encounters in recent years. Between October and June, there have been 12,860 encounters in the Swanton Sector alone.