Northern Border Security and Immigration

In short, security along the northern border of the USA and Canada leaves a lot to be desired.  Entering Canada from the USA  at Sault Ste. Marie was a joke.  We were asked if we had any alcohol or tobacco and if we had ever been to Canada before.  That's it.  The border guard did ask us to pull over and go inside to get out passports stamped.  Inside another guard ran our passports through a computer check while outside four guards sat on a bench beside our car.  Not one took the opportunity to look inside, check suitcases, bags, or cooler. 

The back of our Durango was loaded with five suitcases, one back pack, a cooler, and several smaller bags.  I had my fanny pack over my arm and rested it on the counter in front of the border guard.  The fanny pack is made for carrying a handgun, which I left at home.  I thought sure the guard would want to look inside, but nope.  I could have had my gun and no one would have known.  We could have had several suitcase bombs and who knows what else.

Crossing the border from Canada back into the USA was even more pathetic.  We were asked again if we had any alcohol or tobacco and what we had purchasesd in Canada.  The border guard glanced in the back and that was the extent of his inspection.  We only noticed one car being pulled over.  Sad.

Numbers USA has begun running a commercial on national TV news and talk shows. This campaign should last all summer.

Numbersusa Education and Research Foundation is running the ads to help people understand the magnitude of the immigration problem—and to show them there is something they can do by joining the rest of you in the fight to REDUCE the numbers.

You can go to their website and view the commercials.

Border Pundit has information on "Sheriff, federal agency at odds on caught immigrants"

Our Sheriff is angry. I don’t blame him. I’m angry too. Why can’t I.C.E. deport the illegals, whether they’re criminals or not? It doesn’t make sense.

Maricopa County Jail inmates convicted or cleared of human-smuggling charges and presumed to be undocumented were allowed to walk out of jail without being removed from the country because of a spat over jurisdiction between the Sheriff’s Office and federal immigration agents.  (Go read it al)

Also from Border Pundit, "You Don’t Speak for Me"

This confirms what I’ve always heard - that American citizens of Hispanic descent very much resent illegal aliens and have no desire to be associated with them. There is a big difference between legal immigrants and criminal border crossers. From CNSNews.  (Go read it all)

Morning Coffee says, "Debating the Wall"

From Forbes

   Lawmakers grappled Thursday with whether to build a fence along hundreds of miles on the nation’s southern border, weighing combating illegal immigration against a costly barrier that alone might not stop migrants.

No one is suggesting that a Fence alone will stop Illegal Immigrants.  (Go read it all)

Also posting, Red Hot Cuppa Politics, "MinuteMen More Excited About Guarding Border Than Double Column Bookkeeping ...?

Once in a while, there's news I don't really want to blog about, but in fairness needs to be presented. I saw an an article yesterday in the WashingtonTimes, which questioned whether or not the MinuteMen had been handling donations responsibly.

Border Pundit:  Caught on video - illegals try to kill Texas law enforcement officer                                                         

They are peaceful people. They just come here to work. All they want to do is earn money to support their families. That’s what the open borders folks will try to tell you if you let them. The truth is that many illegals come here to sell drugs, rape women and little girls, and kill law enforcement officers. Look at this dashcam video and watch the two illegals try to kill Trooper Steven Stone, just because Stone found an open container of alcohol and a bag of marijuana. You can read the story here.

Cross posting is A Lady's Ruminations

You can read all about our travels here.

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Comments

[Always On Watch]

The media focuses a lot on the porous border to our south. But my friends in Washington state have been warning me for months about the Canadian border.

And don't think that the terrorists don't know about both our southern and northern borders!

[Thomas Hamilton]

In view of the number of people crossing the northern border, I can appreciate the enormity of the problem. Even with the tiny bit of inspection going on, traffic was backed up pretty far, especially at Sault Ste. Marie. With the present resources, I can't imagine how long a crossing would take if thorough inspections of everyone were performed.

Unfortunately, our freedom, our open society, and our good relations with our Canadian neighbors puts us all at added risk.

I fear there are no easy answers to this problem.

Debbie's Hubby