Border Patrol Highlight The Next Threat to America


Border Patrol agents are speaking up about our biggest weakness against ISIS, but its likely to fall on deaf ears.

In the wake of the coordinated terrorist attacks on Paris earlier this month that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more, the federal government is paying more attention to the nation’s northern border.

According to Reuters, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) is concerned about how it will protect the 5,500-mile northern border between the United States and Canada (including Alaska), given that newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is committed to resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees in his country within the next three months.

That’s on top of the 10,000 Syrian refugees that President Barack Obama announced earlier this year that he would like to bring stateside:
The U.S.-Canada border, which is the world’s longest shared land border, is currently patrolled by 2,200 federal agents – just a fraction of the 18,000 agents covering the country’s 1,933-mile-long southern border.

With so few agents protecting the border, it makes it difficult to monitor the approximately 300,000 people and $910 million in trade that cross the border daily, per PJMedia.com. Those figures are believed to represent the largest bilateral flow of goods and people in the world.

While this problem seems to have a simply and doable solution, the Obama Administration has repeatedly refused to strengthen our border. With their inaction, they very well may be inviting members of ISIS directly into the United States with an open door.

Source: IJ Review

Photo: Can Pac Swire on Flickr



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