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Residents along the Niagara River and Lake Ontario are calling on officials to take action after they say they’ve seen an increase sighting of suspicious vehicles, and trespassing in their backyards. Since this past November, U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Niagara Falls Station along with state and local law enforcement have arrested numerous individuals from over 20 incidents of illegal Niagara River crossings. On Thursday, those agencies provided an update on what’s being done to solve the problem. “We have always had rafts and people crossing the river. We’ve always had drugs crossing the river. Now, what has changed...

1,000 migrants arrived in Portland, Maine since the beginning of 2023, ..Some residents have expressed discontent with the expo center being used as a shelter for migrants while the city of Portland continues to experience an increasing homelessness problem with its own citizens. Running the basketball arenas as a shelter for two months in 2019 cost Portland around $400,000 – and, the Portland Press reports, the city raised nearly $1 million in private donations to support the 400 asylum seekers who arrived over the summer that year. Portland activist Richard Ward told Fox & Friends on Wednesday that the city's...

Let me paraphrase Marvin Gaye and ask what's going on? Yes, what's going on at the U.S.-Canadian border? Let's check the story: Border Patrol agents in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire apprehended more people illegally entering the US from Canada in the past three months than in the previous two years combined, authorities say.Officials in the states, which make up the federal agency’s eastern “Swanton Sector,” saw a 743% increase in apprehensions and encounters between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 compared to the same period in 2021, sector chief, Robert Garcia said last week in a press release.In December,...

CBS News has learned the number of people caught illegally crossing the United States' northern border is up 142 percent. Border Patrol agents apprehended 445 people entering the U.S. from Canada during the first six months of 2018; that compares with 184 during the same period last year. The northern border is very easy to cross, which was actually the original intention. But it also makes it very difficult to secure. An unguarded metal fence is the only thing keeping smugglers from entering a remote corner of New York State – a small part of the physical security infrastructure along...

Up in northern Vermont, Franklin, Vermont, there is a red brick house which is located in a rural back road area, in which, heavy traffic would be considered having three cars an hour passing on by. That rural bucolic setting of farm houses, silos, and sugar maples has become the focus of a very bitter dispute between Homeland Security who do believe that it needs to secure that border to protect the nation against terrorists who could bring in lethal weapons and an American farm family that need the land to feed their dairy cows hay.

Toledo, Ohio native Zak Reed is tired of being stopped and detained at the Canadian border every time he tries to drive home. "I don't feel very welcome in my home at all," Reed tells CBS News. "In fact, I feel like I am not wanted in my country any more." Last month, for the ninth time in the past year, Reed was held in custody during a routine border crossing across Detroit's Ambassador Bridge, en route to Toledo, about an hour from there. The procedure has become a familiar drill for Reed. "They swipe the passport, they double take...

Another terrorist attack could hit the United States in the next five years — and North Texas could be a key target next time. By 2013, the U.S. “more likely than not” could be hit by another deadly attack, this time using something possibly like anthrax, according to the new report, World at Risk. And some fear that North Texas, with its population, sports and entertainment venues and businesses — not to mention the fact that President George W. Bush is moving back here after he leaves office in January — could be a target next time. “Everybody should be...

The border is an expensive barrier, new study concludes Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun Published: Thursday, June 14, 2007 The Canada-U.S. border is not our friend. That's the conclusion of a new Fraser Institute study written by author and Simon Fraser University political scientist Alexander Moens. Canadian nationalists traditionally argue that the border is our last defence against cultural and economic absorption by the all-powerful, politically domineering U.S.A. But Moens presents a different, more pragmatic perspective, which has resonance in view of the panic associated with long waits for passports to enable Canadians to keep flying freely to their favourite...

U.S. lawmakers agree to extend passport deadline CTV.ca News Staff Updated Tue. Sep. 26 2006 1:23 PM ET The deadline for tough new border identification requirements at Canada-U.S. border crossings will be extended for 17 months, U.S. lawmakers agreed Tuesday. The delay is included in a funding bill for the U.S. Homeland Security Department that permits new fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico aimed at stemming the flood of illegal immigrants. Though it still needs to clear Congress, observers have indicated that they are certain that it will pass. The vote could come as soon as Thursday before...

NUEVO LAREDO - Three Nuevo Laredo men were shot to death in two separate shootings Friday in the area of Colonia Hidalgo and Colonia Militar. Nuevo Laredo ministerial police reported late Friday that they did not have any suspects. In one shooting, an individual between 20 and 25 years of age - identified as Carlos "El Negro" Rueda - was found dead inside a house at 916 Tomas F. de la Garza in Colonia Hidalgo. Officers at the scene said Rueda had been shot several times. Investigators recovered an automatic weapon and spent bullets from the street surface. Officers said...

NUEVO LAREDO - Just days after arriving here to help reinforce government efforts to stop the drug war raging on the border, four federal agents were shot dead in the middle of the afternoon on Avenida Guerrero. The agents never had a chance, observers said. At least one officer was armed, but didn't have time to pull his weapon. Calls came into C-4, the city's emergency headquarters, at about 2:25 p.m., with reports that gunfire had broken out on Avenida Guerrero between Venustiano Carranza and 5 de Febrero streets. Several people were reported to be dead in a vehicle. State...

Minuteman Northern Border Watch Will Be International By Kevin Fobbs When the American-Canadian Conservative Coalition (AC3) announced last week it was joining Chris Simcox and the Minuteman Project to develop an internationally supported citizens border watch project patterned after the successful Minuteman Project of Arizona, American and Canadian media and political observers wondered how this historic effort would work. It was clear from the onset that with both nations sharing a mutual border of over 4,000 miles which are largely unprotected coupled with the release last week of the Canadian Senate Committee on National Security and Defense report which candidly...