Have illegal Canadians been a problem in the past?
Along the northern border last fiscal year, the agency made 7,431 arrests.
a check of the Bellingham bus station in 1997 yielded an arrest of Palestinian Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer. Abu Mezer skipped out on a $5,000 bond — only to turn up later in Brooklyn, where New York police shot him as he prepared to bomb the city’s subway system.
The would-be millennium bomb suspect Ahmed Ressam was arrested at the border in late 1999 when he left a ferry from British Columbia to Washington in a rented car full of explosives.
It was an alert US Customs agent that prevented Ahmed Ressam from gaining entrance through British Columbia and bombing LAX during the millennium.