Posted on 04/20/2016 8:03:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Canada's sloppy, rushed and reckless Syrian refugee resettlement program is America's looming national security nightmare.
Donald Trump shouldn't just be promising to build a Mexican border wall. He (and any other sovereignty-minded presidential candidate) should be vowing to rebuild the decimated "wall" of first-line watchdogs, field enforcement and patrol officers on our northern border.
The urgency could not be greater.
The Canadian liberal government has fast-tracked tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims into its country over the past five months and now plans to double its interim 25,000 goal by 2019. The bleeding-heart Canucks are forging ahead despite reports this week of the country's failed $16 million screening program to stop Islamic terrorists from slipping through the cracks.
Multiple databases are not interoperable. Information is outdated or useless. Canadian agents are delivering incomplete background checks too late to matter, anyway. Result: Garbage in, garbage out, and untold numbers of unvetted refugees from jihad hotbeds on the loose at our doorstep. (As if the 1,500 Syrian refugees a month that the U.S. State Department is directly importing here through November aren't enough of a security headache!)
Instead of moving to fortify our northern border, Washington is diverting our boots on the ground and downsizing our fleet of surveillance pilots in the skies. Turnover is high, morale is low, and the jihadists' path to illegal entry has never been smoother.
In Plattsburgh, New York, 45 miles from Syrian refugee dumping ground Montreal, the Customs and Border Patrol's air branch has been slashed from 25 pilots down to a shocking six in the last three years. Shifts have been reduced to bankers' hours, while terror plotters and smugglers never rest. Members of Congress have been alerted to the perilous impact of downsizing, but have done nothing (except, that is, to fully fund the White House refugee resettlement racket).
In Montana, Reuters reported earlier this year, our federal enforcement force is still so understaffed that the Border Patrol depends on 100 private citizen ranchers along the northern border to police the U.S.-Canada boundaries.
Of 21,000 total Border Patrol agents, only 2,100 are assigned to the northern border. There are only about 300 agents guarding the entire northern border at any one time. That's less than the number of Capitol police on duty to protect the Capitol complex in D.C. alone, Buffalo, New York, sector Border Patrol agent Dean Mandel of the National Border Patrol Council pointed out to Congress.
Little has changed since Border Patrol agents in Washington state first told me 15 years ago of vast, abandoned sectors protected by nothing but orange rubber cones -- even in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Little has changed since the 9/11 Commission spotlighted multiple al-Qaida operatives involved in cross-border traffic and incursions (both legal and illegal) from Canada.
Little has changed since the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in 2011 that a measly 32 miles out of the 4,000-mile border was deemed secure by Border Patrol agents heavily dependent on non-DHS personnel for support.
A U.S. source who works for the Department of Homeland Security on the northern border told me last week that there remain vast "no-go zones" in his upstate New York sector that stretch for miles unpoliced -- such as the smuggler-friendly Akwesasne reservation, where Mohawks are notoriously hostile to our Border Patrol, Air and Marine operations, and field operations agents.
"There's a gigantic hole on our northern border," my source described, where "people from countries of interest are crossing" into America. "Special interest countries," as the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security defines it, are those "designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism."
"Yes, I've personally seen them. Every day. We call them 'gotaways,'" my source sighed. These newest border-jumpers are detected (by high-tech cameras and motion sensors), but neglected because the core national security mission is not a priority and no one's around to act on the alerts.
On the southern border, "gotaways" spiked 100 percent between 2011 and 2013. This year, as illegal trespassers from dangerous special interest countries have increased through Mexico, a Border Patrol whistleblower told Congress two months ago that his supervisors ordered agents to fudge data on "gotaways" by omitting them from data reports.
Think the same whitewashing is going on up north? You betcha.
As the disgusted northern border CBP official told me: "The attitude is no paperwork, no problems." No problems, of course, until that one ISIS operative toting a dirty bomb in his bag rolls right across the wide open U.S.-Canadian border -- detected, but neglected -- and our government's malign neglect blows up in our faces.
By the time the wall gets built, all the machine gun towers will face American soil.
Went to Canada one time, crossed over up in NY around Niagara falls. Canadian officials put us through the ringer. Made us pull the kids outta the car, even the baby out of the baby seat and wait inside while they searched the vehicle thru and thru. All over a pack of cigarettes on the dashboard I failed to declare.
We finally went about our way, a day or so later, we approached the U.S. border with Canada. The border patrol agent sittin in a small booth slides the door open and said,”Citizenship?”, I said, “American”....waved me on.
Couldn't believe it. He was lounged back reading a book. Barely even looked at us. True story.
“Canada’s sloppy, rushed and reckless Syrian refugee resettlement program is America’s looming national security nightmare.”
There's a Mission and a half for the USCG % its enlargement of Manning and Ships/Choppers.
I had the opposite experience. Heading into Canada the customs guy was half-leaning against his booth and said “Welcome to Canada, eh? Where ya headed? What’s in the cooler? OK, have a nice day, eh?”
Meanwhile coming back to the States a guy who reminded me of Broaderick Crawford from Highway Patrol played Twenty Questions with me while his colleague snuck around the vehicle giving us the close inspection.
What Trudeau’s Muslim Pets already heading south ?
Without one Cruz got in.
There's a Mission and a half for the USCG % its enlargement of Manning and Ships/Choppers.
Small service..BIG mission!
The T in NAFTA means something different today.
RE: Without one Cruz got in.
You can build a wall all you want, Cruz still got in — AS AMERICAN.
Just sayin'...
If it would keep Seth Rogen, Justin Bieber and those stinkin’ Maple Leafs out of the country, I’m for it!
A wall on the Canadian Border would be difficult, if not impossible to maintain.
The border bisects the Great Lakes, passes through multiple homes, a factory, the Haskell Free Library, and divides a road...
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.0048674,-72.1379932,542m/data=!3m1!1e3
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.0054196,-72.0988574,1101m/data=!3m1!1e3
I love Michelle, but no, we don’t need a wall on the Canadian border.
Five years ago coming back from Canada in Wash. St., the U.S. customs guy asked me about ten questions including one about a city in my state of Wisconsin, New London. I said I had never heard of it and thought the guy was making it up. Later on got out the map of Wisconsin, and sure enough, New London is near Green Bay.
Something I learned yesterday, deportation orders in Canada are essentially done on the honor system. Basically a bus is set aside, and orders are sent out. They then rely on honest refugees obeying those orders and showing up on the bus. If they don’t, nothing happens.
They already caught one coming into Washington state, when was that? Years ago...
Funny I recently saw that movie Canadian bacon. It cast Americans as hyper aggressive nutballs, but was still actually kinda funny and really made fun of Canadian manners and mentality.
Years ago, I met a US crossing agent at Sault Ste. Marie, and he was much like you describe, a very easy going fellow.
In 1991, I moved from Ottawa, ON to Lethbridge, AB. I was single, didn’t have much, and had a carload full of my ‘stuff’ (clothes, stereo, TV, etc.). The most direct route was to cross at Sault Ste. Marie, drive a short distance on I-75, and shortly thereafter, take US Hwy #2 and then I-15 into AB.
I hit the SSM crossing at about 3:00 PM on a rather hot Spring day. The agent looked very bored, sitting in his booth, and seemed a little irritated that he had to adjust in his seat, to ask me some questions. He asked me where I was from and where I was going and if I was bringing any money with me. I explained my trip and that I had the princely sum of $100 US in cash and $100 US in traveller’s cheques to carry me across to Canada.
Using the slightest muscle exertion possible, he waved me through. I thanked him and expressed my relief that I didn’t have to empty my car for him to search it. He pointedly asked, “If you WANT it searched, back the car over to that shed, and I’ll search it.” I replied, “No, thanks.”, and he waved me through again, using the least muscle exertion that was possible!
At the Sweetgrass/Coutts crossing, Canada Customs did not require a search, but were VERY snooty that a Canadian would drive through the US, to come to AB. The bottom line was, even with the USD/CDN exchange, hotels, gas and food cost less in the US than Canada, AND the trip was shorter. If I had been moving to Calgary from Ottawa, the ‘all-Canadian’ route would have been shorter, but more expensive.
Even after 9/11, I found that US Customs agents were friendlier than Canada Customs agents by a long shot, at least at ‘land’ crossings. Never having flown into the US, I have no idea how US Customs is at a ‘per-clearance’ airport like YYC. Private security firms that do pre-flight screening at Canadian airports (at least YYC and YOW) tend to be new to Canada and have more melanin than the average Canadian of fifty years ago. They also tend to search more ‘melanin challenged’ people than those with feature such as theirs. Often times, the biggest ‘challenge’ to them is THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
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