Trump's new "border czar" is worried about Canada's weak border controls.

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Trump's new "border czar" is worried about Canada's weak border controls.


In light of the high number of terrorist suspects apprehended, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a new "border czar" who vows to be strict on illegal immigration and has urged Canada to tighten the US-Canada border.


Tom Homan, Trump's border appointment and the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spoke on the United States' northern border with Canada on Monday during a local broadcast on Channel 7 News in Waterford, New York. From West Carthage, New York, which is located just southeast of Thousand Islands, Ontario, Homan stated that he will not allow Canada's lax border security to affect his home.


Although the southern border sees more crossings overall, you have a lot fewer resources up here in terms of percentage agents of the border patrol," he said. "There's only so much the few resources up here can do, so they're overwhelmed and not catching a lot of them."


He claimed that after President Joe Biden and his border czar Kamala Harris deployed half of the US border patrol agents to the southern border, the country's northern border now presents a "significant national security risk."


Homan pledged to increase the number of border security officers in the north and to stop the catch-and-release practices, which involve the detention of illegal immigrants and their subsequent release on the condition that they appear in court, which he claimed they frequently "never" do.


"They must know from the beginning that you can come if you're crossing the northern border by foot, the lake, or the St. Lawrence River However, you will be arrested," he said. "We'll take you away; you won't be freed. It will not resemble the Biden administration.You're not going anywhere. We will put you in jail.


Homan claimed that because "special interest aliens," or immigrants from nations that support terrorism, utilize Canada as a route to the US, the US-Canada border is a "huge national security issue."




US Customs and Border Protection reports that 249 people on the terrorist watch list attempted to enter the country through the southern border, while 484 people were apprehended attempting to enter through the northern border.


Since they are a wealthy company, they may fly into Canada instead of crossing the northern border because they He remarked, "I know there are a lot fewer officers up here." They can traverse the St. Louis River in forty-five seconds from Thousand Islands. The northern frontier is therefore extremely vulnerable in terms of national security. I'll start working on it as soon as I get to the White House.


He stated that in order to implement "whatever immigration laws" Canada has, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will need to cooperate with President-Elect Trump.


"The two governments must engage in some negotiation. But in the meanwhile, we will follow President Trump's previous course of action. Put a "remain in Mexico program" in place for Canada and end the catch-a-release.


Officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, the "remain in Mexico program" mandated that asylum applicants who arrived at the Southern Border wait in Mexico Instead of having unrestricted freedom in the nation till then, their assertions were examined and accepted. In addition to lowering the number of asylum seekers waiting or avoiding hearings, the scheme discourages migrants from crossing the border.


It changed the game for border security, according to Homan.

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