[F16Fighter]

...About 500 agents man the U.S.-Canadian border [4,000 miles], with 9,000 on the Mexican border [2,000 miles], which is about half the size....

Some quick math gives us (1) agent per (8) miles guarding Canada; (9) agents per (2) miles guarding Mexico.

And who are these 9,000 lined up at the Mexican border? A bunch of Ray Charles clones??

[eno_]

You are right. We are not serious. If we were, we could seal our borders pretty well. Sensor technology has gotten pretty good. Keep the pressure up.

[lonevoice]

Some quick math gives us (1) agent per (8) miles guarding Canada; (9) agents per (2) miles guarding Mexico.

So, for the security forces along the Canadian border just to equal those of the Mexican border, we'd need to add about 700 agents to Canada. Either Ashcroft needs to acknowledge that 9 agents per 2 miles (as in Mexico) is not enough agents for either border, or something of crisis proportions is wrong with the BP along Mexico.