Same problems, new border: U.S. Northern border reaches record highs of terror watchlist encounters

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A refugee arrives at the Roxham Road border crossing to at the US-Canada border in Champlain, New York, on March 25, 2023. - The Roxham Road crossing closed at midnight March 24, as Canadian and US media reported that Canada will be able to turn back illegal migrants at the crossing point on the frontier between New York state and Quebec. The reports said that Canada has agreed in return to take in some 15,000 asylum seekers from Latin America through legal channels, a move that will ease the pressure on the southern US border. Radio-Canada reported that the deal would take effect Saturday. (Photo by Lars Hagberg / AFP) (Photo by LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)

Migrants and terrorists are banking on the United States spending time, money and resources protecting the southern border and neglecting its Canadian border. More than 150,000 migrants have attempted to enter the United States through the northern border this fiscal year alone.

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Congressional Republicans and local officials and border patrol are begging for assistance and raising alarms. Agents recorded 375 encounters at the northern border with people on the Terrorist Screening Dataset, better known as the terrorist watchlist, so far in 2023. The southern border sees significantly more immigrant encounters overall, but has also recorded 216 watchlist encounters so far this year.

Just The News reports that nearly half of all 2023 northern encounters occurred on New York’s border, despite the fact that the state only makes up about 8% of the U.S. land border with Canada.

Canada also has a leftist progressive President and is suffering its own migrant crisis, “experiencing an influx of individuals crossing the Canada-United States border between ports of entry,” known as “irregular border crossings.”

Just The News adds that so far this U.S. fiscal year, Canadian officials have recorded 30,326 irregular border crossings; 3.7 times more irregular crossings than Canada saw at this point during fiscal year 2022.

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New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik stated, “Joe Biden’s Far Left open border policies have caused our Northern Border to see an unprecedented and historic surge in illegal immigration and Kathy Hochul’s ‘Sanctuary State’ policies have further incentivized this dangerous surge…Enough is enough.”

The gravity of the situation needs to be taken seriously by the Biden administration immediately. The State Department’s report for Canada states their “National Terrorism Threat Level remained at ‘Medium’ through 2021, meaning a violent act of terrorism could occur.” That was two years ago, and the crisis has gotten drastically worse.

The Department of Homeland Security warned in May: “Potential terror threats are primarily from homegrown violent extremists in Canada who are not included in the U.S. Government’s consolidated terrorist watch list and could therefore enter the United States legally at Northern Border ports of entry (POEs) without suspicion.”

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