US-Canada Border

Alberta unveils border security plan with sheriff-led patrols and “red zone”

In a Thursday announcement, the government confirmed that the new Interdiction Patrol Team would consist of 51 officers, ten support staff, four patrol dogs, ten surveillance drones, and four narcotics analyzers.

On top of the 298 kilometres that will be monitored for drug smuggling, gun trafficking, and illegal immigration, a two-kilometre “red zone” will be created. The Interdiction Patrol Team will also monitor major provincial highways and inter-provincial travel routes to and from the border.

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Canada’s privacy laws limit cross-border sex trafficking probes: U.S. envoy

Canada’s privacy laws are one of the “real barriers” to addressing the significant issue of cross-border sex trafficking, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Canada says.

Sex trafficking is one of several border security concerns that have been routinely discussed between the two countries under the Biden administration, Ambassador David Cohen says, long before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump began pushing Canada and Mexico to address irregular migration and drug trafficking or risk punishing tariffs.

While Cohen points out progress has been made on those fronts, he said there was still work to do on other border issues.

“Not mentioned in the president-elect’s social media post is a problem we have with sex trafficking between Canada and the United States,” he told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block.

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‘We don’t know what comes’ into Canada by rail, border union head says

Canada’s border services agency has no infrastructure in place to search trains for drugs, people and other goods crossing illegally into the country by rail, the head of the border agents’ union says — a security gap that adds to concerns about an overall lack of enforcement at the border.

Mark Weber, national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, says a shortage of personnel and equipment at official points of entry means less than one per cent of containers moving through Canadian seaports are being searched for illicit goods.

That rate is even smaller for cross-border rail traffic, he said.

“We don’t do it at all,” he told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block. “We don’t know what comes in via train.

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Hochul Asks Homeland Security for More Agents to the Address Surge of Illegal Crossings at Northern Border

Governor Hochul is seeking to more than double the number of agents posted at the northern border as illegal crossings in the region surge to record highs.
In a letter first obtained by the Albany Times Union, Hochul asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for more Border Patrol agents to be posted to the Swanton Sector — a region that stretches from northern New York to New Hampshire.

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B.C. premier says feds and provinces have right-left strategy to tackle Trump tariff threat

 

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump.

Seriously, can someone explain to me why everyone is so adverse to protecting the US-Canadian border and is focused on combating tariffs?

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Plan to add resources to border will come before Trump inauguration: LeBlanc

Canada will beef up its border security in time for the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Tuesday as he appeared at a House of Commons committee.

LeBlanc couldn’t provide specifics on the number of extra “boots on the ground,” but said the government is finalizing a plan based on advice received from the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency, and that he is now working with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to fund it.

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Trucker Blockade of US-Canada Border Bridge Forcing Carmakers to Cut Production

On Feb. 7, Canadians protesting the nation’s cross-border vaccine mandate and other pandemic-related restrictions began a blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, a vital crossing over the Detroit River between the Motor City and Windsor, Ontario. Constructed in 1929, the bridge is a vital trade artery between the two nations with $323 million worth of goods crossing over it each day—over a quarter of the trade between the U.S. and its neighbor to the north. 

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Federal government won’t budge on vaccine mandate for truckers as convoy heads for Ottawa

In an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics, Alghabra said the government is not interested in alternatives like rapid testing for unvaccinated truckers. He said truckers and the wider industry have had months to prepare for the new regulations and drivers must now get the shot or stop driving over the border.

h/t Mauser 98

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