Posted on 11/22/2013 7:34:19 AM PST by rktman
Where does the greatest threat from terrorists trying to enter the U.S. come from? If you guessed the Southwest Border you’d be wrong. According to National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, it’s the U.S.-Canada border.
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This has stuck in my craw for a long time and it sure seems that the powers that (are supposed to)be don't really pay much attention. If I remember correctly (highly suspect) didn't p.o.s. moohamud atta come in from Canada? (Thankfully the "lyin' king" has put an end to terrorism.)
The land border is over 3000 miles long and Michigan alone has more coastline than the entire East Coast. As a practical matter I just don’t know how you’d seal it.
“/s on.” I guess we just do like we do along the southern border. Let anyone and everyone cross and hope nothing goes wrong. “If you like your border, you can keep your border.”
I head the Canadian border called the longest undefended border in the world. We’re ripe for a Canadian takeover! < /sarc >
I head...I HEARD, of course.
The Southern border remains the biggest threat to this country. The two main threats to our national security posed by immigration relate to terrorism and drugs.
First, tens of thousands of persons from countries that support international terrorism have come across our southern border undetected since 9/11. Testifying before Congress in March 2006, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S. “This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a hearing on the FBI's budget. Hezbollah was responsible for the October 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.
A total of 20 foreign-born terrorists were involved in 9/11, 19 of whom took part in the attack that resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths. The terrorists had entered the country on tourist or student visas. Four of them, however, had overstayed their visas and become illegal aliens and the others should not have been granted visas for various immigration control reasons.
Second, Michael Hayden, the outgoing head of the CIA stated in January 2009 that the threat of a narco state in Mexico is one of the gravest dangers to American security, on a par with a nuclear-armed Iran. An assessment by the United States’ Joint Forces Command, published in February 2009, concluded that the two countries most at risk of becoming failed states were Pakistan and Mexico.
The descent of Mexico into a failed narco state marked by increased violence and brutality, which has already spilled over into the U.S., has enormous implications for immigration, legal and illegal. With over 11 million Mexican-born residents in the U.S. plus their U.S- born relatives, there are strong familial ties to Mexico, which would attract Mexicans fleeing a disintegrating state seeking asylum and safety in the U.S. And the pressure on our porous, unsecured southern border would increase dramatically. Currently, the Border Patrol apprehends more than half a million people annually trying to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico and hundreds of thousands more illegal aliens are successful in gaining entry. There is no way the U.S. could stop a tidal wave of Mexicans seeking asylum in this country and it would be even more difficult to remove them.
There has been a confluence of interests between drugs, illegal immigration, and terrorism. The systems for moving terrorists illegally across the border have become increasingly sophisticated, with Mexican drug kingpins now playing a major facilitating role using the same routes and methods to bring in illegal aliens and drugs. In view of the carnage that the 19 terrorists created on 9/11, the virtual certainty that our government has allowed substantial numbers of terrorists and their supporters to enter our country illegally is an outrage.
These Taliban guys are used to crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan carrying 100 pound /weapon ammo loads on foot thru snow covered altitudes of 14,000 feet. You think a couple feet of Canuck white stuff is gonna stop them?
Roger that. OTM’s crossing from meh-hee-ko have been a problem for a long time. Doesn’t really appear that the meh-hee-kan govt much gives a crap either. At least the RCMP and Canadian govt seems cares about what’s going on. Hmm, whom do I trust to have our best interest at heart? Canada or Mexico. I believe I’d trust Canada first.
LOL! Probably not.
The border may be long but it’s hardly undefended these days, it’s quite extensively monitored electronically and in the relatively few places where you could get from our road system to the U.S. road system within minutes rather than hours or days, there is saturation surveillance and any illegal entry would be picked up and probably intercepted within minutes. Legal border crossings now have long delays and multiple levels of surveillance — I imagine that agents other than those in the booths are also watching everything and from quite some time before each vehicle reaches the actual border crossing. While this is no guarantee that terrorists won’t cross the border, it has apparently worked. There was one major breach in 2000 when the LAX bombers tried to get in on a ferry that runs from Victoria BC to Seattle. They were stopped in Seattle. It’s not true that any of the 9-11 hijackers came into the U.S. from Canada.
Given the degree of radicalization, I would be more concerned with flights into the U.S. from Europe including the U.K., than with border crossings from Canada. And since we also know this to be the case in Canada, we are just as alert to this risk as your government must be.
I wouldn’t let my guard down, but it does seem that Canada has developed as good an anti-terrorist capability as any western nation. That should inspire some confidence that the border might not be the worst case scenario.
>>There is no way the U.S. could stop a tidal wave of Mexicans seeking asylum in this country and it would be even more difficult to remove them. <<
First I’d remove them from every public program and when they get hungry they would deport themselves. Second, any business that hires a non citizen who is not entitled to work in the USA would be sold immediately and the profits would go to the state.
Those two measures alone would reduce the immigrant population to where they would stick out like pumpkins in a snowbank.
First off I call BS that there is a greater threat with the northern border.
Second, if we want it secured announce that the Canadians coming over and voting republican. It would get sealed immediately.
Where I live there are Mexican cartel members hoofing small bags of cocaine and guns across the border into Canada. It isn’t anything like the Rio Grande Valley, but those smuggler jobs used to be done by Canadian and American criminals.
If pigs had wings they could fly. We can’t get rid of the 11 to 20 million illegal aliens now.
Because they are on programs to keep them here, that’s why.
It is not the programs, but the lack of will to enforce our laws.
The easiest border in the US to breach by far. Here is how it goes......we ran our boat on the Great Lakes, our home port was the southern shore of Lake Erie. We made many trips north to Windsor, Canada for weekends. We would go North through Lake Erie into the Detroit River up to Lake St. Clair where we would dock for the weekend. Upon arrival we were required to call into border patrol and declare how many onboard and how long. When we left, we left, went back down the Detroit and home. We were NEVER check boarded, and rarely saw Coast Guard. Knowing quite a few other boaters, they were never boarded either. We could have picked up anyone or anything in Windsor, a city with a 40% Muslim population. It is a no brainer.
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