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.
I head the Canadian border called the longest undefended border in the world. We’re ripe for a Canadian takeover! < /sarc >
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?
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.
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.