U.S. begins beefing up Canadian border security

Arizona Republic | May 9, 2009 | Bob Drogin

[reaganaut1]

No excerpt allowed, story here .

[reaganaut1]

Only an idiot would allocate border security resources based on political correctness rather than the level of threat. Napolitano should be fired, but Obama is of the same ilk.

[coloradan]

Furthermore, resources are finally being allocated to the one single country whose illegal immigrants are doing the most harm to the United States ...... Finland!!

(You might think I’m joking NOW...)

[jakerobins]

Because I don't how many times I've read stories about those dangerous Canadian gangs in the US....

[buccaneer81]

As I came back from Canada, at the Houlton, ME entry point a month ago, I was pulled in and interrogated for half an hour over an arrest a decade ago for disorderly conduct (I was in the middle of a divorce, called my soon to be ex-wife a name in front of the police.) I paid a $100 fine the next day in court and it was done. Or so I thought. I almost missed my flight back to Columbus. And for what? Did they really think they were going to keep me out of my own country?

[FourPeas]

Wouldn’t want to further inculcate our country with the horrors of hockey or curling, eh?

[org.whodat]

http://www.geocities.com/beaver_militia/canada.html

[buccaneer81]

Wouldn’t want to further inculcate our country with the horrors of hockey or curling, eh?

Or palatable beer.

[Paladin2]

Keep that Moosehead beer ooott.

[EagleUSA]

Well, the ruse of border security has to be carried out somewhere — certainly not Mexico. Too many voters coming across now that Obama is in office. Maybe he will station ACORN accomplices along the border to hand out voter registration forms....

[cripplecreek]

Well that was a Michael Moore movie. We just thought it was comedy.

[FourPeas]

Most definitely. How could I have forgotten that?!

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

Jennifer Granholm managed to cross the northern border. She's an economic terrorist.

[headstamp 2]

“U.S. begins beefing up Canadian border security”

Oh, Thank God! Oh,wait...........

[Da Coyote]

About time. Those dastardly Canadians, slithering across our border and speaking better English than us. Pretty soon, we’ll have to press 1 for real English, 2 for Spanish, and 3 for the rest of us.

And let’s not forget all those drugs they bring over, and all of our money they send back to their families.

[Will88]

"One of the things that we need to be sensitive to is the very real feeling among southern border states and in Mexico that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border," Napolitano told a conference in Washington.

Unlike the Mexican border -- which is half as long - no drug war or chaos rages in the north. Arrests and drug seizures in 2008 totaled less than 1 percent of those down south.

We are being governed by brain addled, PC idiots, as the two above statements well illustrate. This might also be a deliberate plan to move some assets to the north to weaken the southern border even more. Nothing can be ruled out considering the nitwits now in charge.

[cripplecreek]

Damned icebacks.

Always hanging out in office depot parking lots offering to reformat our drives, speaking that strange language of theirs.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The checkpoint going into Buffalo NY is just awful. I was coming back from a getaway in Toronto and Homeland Security treated me like some third-world terrorist. Going to Winnipeg next weekend, hopefully the border is better.

[buccaneer81]

The checkpoint going into Buffalo NY is just awful. I was coming back from a getaway in Toronto and Homeland Security treated me like some third-world terrorist. Going to Winnipeg next weekend, hopefully the border is better.

Amazing that they treat citizens this way. I can only imagine that this is recent. It never was so bad even last year at this time.

[netmilsmom]

>>The checkpoint going into Buffalo NY is just awful. I was coming back from a getaway in Toronto and Homeland Security treated me like some third-world terrorist. Going to Winnipeg next weekend, hopefully the border is better.<<

We did a Niagara Falls trip last September. I can’t tell you how many times we crossed the border. We were never stopped, even with a dog in the car.

Not once.

[sionnsar]

Furthermore, resources are finally being allocated to the one single country whose illegal immigrants are doing the most harm to the United States ...... Finland!!
(You might think I’m joking NOW...)

Two weeks ago I returned from a week in Finland. I have no cause to pin my return experience on having been in Finland, other than to compare it with my returns from the UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, China, India, Austria, Australia, South Korea, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Mexico and wherever else I've been... but I'm not laughing.