There are protections provided to the citizens of the US by monitoring what crosses our boarders, even though this lady was in Canada. For example, nuclear, chemical or bio weapons. Also, blood diamonds were used to finance the Sept. 11 attacks here. Two of the 19 hijackers spent the he last 18 months of their lives living in Sierra Leon buying all the production from the RUF, the muslim terrorists that left tens of thousands of amputees in their pursuit of control of the diamond bearing areas. The next time you want to purchase anything that has diamonds in it, from drill bits, nail files to jewelry, ask if they are ‘conflict free’ diamonds and where are the Kimberly Process documents to authenticate source.
LOL Yes of course keeping the steady stream of illegals and drugs out has kept the welfare rolls down and won the "war on drugs.". Oh wait, they DON'T keep the illegals out. And they haven't been able to stop the flow of drugs. So the rest of it is down to revenue collection.